Carlungie Earth House

Angus | Newbigging | Earth house | ★

[Carlungie Earth House]

Carlungie Earth House is the most extensive of two excavated souterrains in the general area of Carnoustie in southern Angus - the other being Ardestie Earth House a few miles to the west. An impressive 40 metres of 2,000 to 3,000 year-old passageways of various sizes form a complex shape, originally all below ground level (the roofs are now missing) and once probably used for food storage.

[Carlungie Earth House]

📌 Carlungie Earth House ★
By minor road a mile east of Newbigging, G.R.: NO 511360 ///cards.lilac.oath
Open "summer only" according to website (all hours) - probably April to October | Free

[Carlungie Earth House]

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