Comments on: The landscape setting of Dun Carloway Broch, Lewis, Outer Hebrides https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/the-landscape-setting-of-dun-carloway-broch-lewis-outer-hebrides/ Gardenvisit.com Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:18:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/the-landscape-setting-of-dun-carloway-broch-lewis-outer-hebrides/#comment-3127 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:18:46 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=6121#comment-3127 Yes, if you think about the round shape, the double wall, the internal floors, the thatched roof and the fire, THEN a broch must have provided very cosy conditions in a very harsh climate. But the level of internal illumation can’t have been good. No wonder their society was non-literate.

]]> By: Grant https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/the-landscape-setting-of-dun-carloway-broch-lewis-outer-hebrides/#comment-3126 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 21:00:15 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=6121#comment-3126 LOL, Tenuous and only link me thinks.

Have to be honest so seduced by the picture that i forgot the question.

Love Scotland hopefully going on a walking holiday next year, but will now take some extra history with me.
Its amazing how a simple structure can affect the landscape, Less is more, they were modernists!

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/the-landscape-setting-of-dun-carloway-broch-lewis-outer-hebrides/#comment-3125 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:48:39 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=6121#comment-3125 Thank you. I missed the Daoism programme and enjoyed it very much. Is the connection that the makers of the broch were Pagans and so were the Daoists?

]]> By: Grant https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/the-landscape-setting-of-dun-carloway-broch-lewis-outer-hebrides/#comment-3124 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:01:42 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=6121#comment-3124 Fantastic picture (reminds me of the Film ‘Whisky Galore’ ).
Thanks Tom have a good Christmas/pagan festival

In Our Time programme on DAOISM. Melvin Bragg at his best!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wlgbg#synopsis

Only available till the 23rd but worth a listen if you have time.

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