Not more than a 15 minute drive from our home and just outside the Dundee city limits are some archaeological sites dating from the iron age (about AD100) called "souterrains" or earth houses. They are leftover stone structures about 1 to 2 metres underground and varying in length. It is believed they were used for storage of items and surplus food that would have been used to trade with surrounding communities. There are dozens of them around the Angus area of Scotland although most of them have been found accidentally by farmers ploughing their fields. We visited one of these sites last weekend (January 30) on a beautifully sunny but cold and wind day.
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