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What is it? (quiz)

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I don't want Gcreekrch getting so bored he starts wrestling cougars or bears again so I've got a couple of photos to share from my old farms in Scotland. Can you guess what these two round things are and what their purpose was?
The round thing is on the middle left here - extra points if you can spot the nearest sheep. :D The grass is so green it's hurting my snow accustomed eyes.
margley.jpg

And for the second one;
kb.jpg
 
nearest sheep is right by the fence post along the rock wall to the left of the pic
 
jigs said:
nearest sheep is right by the fence post along the rock wall to the left of the pic
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Hey McLeod. Get offa Ma ewe!!!

Found the sheep. Is that the foundation remains of an old castle?

the round building in the second picture is for putting H in and telling him to pee in the corner. :wink:
 
the rock wall, castle foundation, roman fortifications is the fence...

fairly common in Scotland.. that and hedge rows.. many have been there for hundreds of years..

as for the round roof?? i think the correct answer was given already...

but I'll stick with a porta-lou.. with a modern water closet.. :lol:
 
OK folks so you all spotted the sheep :D

The round roof isn't a dovecot - what size of doves do you guys have? :shock: :shock: The round building was about 25 foot diameter, 8 foot to the top of the walls with the highest point of the roof being about 20 feet high.

No cookie cowpuncher - you're at least a thousand years out :shock: :wink: - besides the Romans usually built in squares or rectangles.
 
Grassfarmer said:
OK folks so you all spotted the sheep :D

The round roof isn't a dovecot - what size of doves do you guys have? :shock: :shock: The round building was about 25 foot diameter, 8 foot to the top of the walls with the highest point of the roof being about 20 feet high.

No cookie cowpuncher - you're at least a thousand years out :shock: :wink: - besides the Romans usually built in squares or rectangles.
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some dovecots or doocots are pretty big, from pictures I've seen, and the one I have actually seen in person, in Alberta

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I can't find a picture of the Dovecot in Barrhead, AB. (I think that's where I saw it)
 
Grassfarmer said:
Good guesses Steve, not right but I guess you have to be from the country to be familiar with these buildings. :D
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Byre or Croft? :D

I got it! It's the first dairy barn with a merry go round in it.

Can't see the ground or I would say it is where they turn locomotives around.
 
gcreekrch said:
Grassfarmer said:
Good guesses Steve, not right but I guess you have to be from the country to be familiar with these buildings. :D
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Byre or Croft? :D

I got it! It's the first dairy barn with a merry go round in it.

Can't see the ground or I would say it is where they turn locomotives around.
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Keep guessing gcreekrch you're getting closer, look at the hints above. It was designed for work and is on a farm.

As everyone has given up on the green circles I'll tell you that it is the remains of a bronze-age hill fort (bronze age period in western Europe was roughly1900-1000BC) The remains are purely dirt, there was no stone used so it was never a proper castle type building. Speculation is that they would have a wooden structure built in the centre and the ditch around the outside would not contain water, but would still serve to repel unwanted advances. It was one of a series of hill forts, all within site of one other in the chain so that they could send messages using fire in the event of foreign invaders.
 

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