A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . Fig. 12.—Ground-plan of Eoad broch, Keiss, Caithness. The most distinctive among these are no doubt of Late Keltic origin, and fragments of Samian ware point unmistakably to con-tact vp^ith Eoman civilisation ; but, on the other hand, a number 36 DESCRIPTION OF CASES 6, 7 of painted pebbles have been found in three of the Keiss brochs,remarkably like those from Mas dAzil, in the Pyrenees, whichdate from the transition between the palaeolithic and neolithicperiods. The excavations are published
A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . Fig. 12.—Ground-plan of Eoad broch, Keiss, Caithness. The most distinctive among these are no doubt of Late Keltic origin, and fragments of Samian ware point unmistakably to con-tact vp^ith Eoman civilisation ; but, on the other hand, a number 36 DESCRIPTION OF CASES 6, 7 of painted pebbles have been found in three of the Keiss brochs,remarkably like those from Mas dAzil, in the Pyrenees, whichdate from the transition between the palaeolithic and neolithicperiods. The excavations are published by Dr. Joseph Anderson,of Edinburgh, who describes the typical broch as a huge dry-builtcircular tower, rising on a base of aljout 60 ft. in diameter to a. Fig. 13.—Road broch, Keis3, Caithness (from within). height of about .50 ft., like that at Mousa, Shetland. In its eleva-tion the tower was a hollow cylinder, the thickness of wall beingfrom 12 to 15 ft., round a court of about 30 ft. in diameter opento the skj. As all the windows looked into the interior court,there was no opening on the outside except the tunnel-like door-way about 5 yds. long leading into the court, the actual door beinga slab of stone strengthened by a drawbar resting in holes madefor it in the walls. There was usually a guard-chamber behindthe door and at the foot of the stairs leading to upper galleries, KIVER THAMES 37 while the chambers on the ground floor were reached liy separatedoors. The galleries and staircases were constructed in the thick-ness of the wall, and the Dun Telve broch (fig. 11), which is still30 ft. high, has five such galleries one above the other. Thetypical ground-plan (fig. 12) recalls that of the hut-circles of Walesand Cornwal], whil
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