with a settlement. The galleries were dug out and then lined with stone slabs or wood before being reburied. In cases where they were cut into rock this was not always necessary. They do not appear to have been used for burial or ritual purposes and it has been suggested that they were food stores or hiding places during times of strife, although some of them would have had very obvious entrances.

Examples

Brechin

An example of a wood-lined Iron Age souterrain with a possible water tank was excavated in 2016 at Brechin

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