Sunday, May 23, 2010

Beehive huts at ancient hill fort on Dingle Peninsula



These stone huts were built inside a circular Iron Age hill fort (1000 BC to 1200 AD). The construction used a technique called corbelling -- slanting each stone outwards and downwards, so that rain would run off easily. No mortar was used, and the structures are remarkably well-preserved.
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