Wheelhouse

A stone-built, circular-plan house with partition walls projecting inwards like the spokes of a wheel - a form widespread in western and northern Scotland, the Hebrides, and Shetland Islands in the early centuries AD. It characterizes the later Iron Age culture and survived into the Roman period as dwellings and farmhouses.

Type of dwelling found in Scotland in the Iron Age and Roman period, taking its name from its form, which is circular, with partition walls running from the outside wall to an open central area, like the spokes of a wheel. They are built in dry-stone.