Picts' Houses

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 169

Picts' Houses, the name popularly given in many parts of Scotland to the rude underground buildings, more commonly and accurately called Earth-houses (q.v.). The Brochs (q.v.) are also sometimes called Pictish Towers. For the Picts' Work, see CATRAIL.

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