scarcement

Internally a "scarcement" ledge to support an upper floor is visible some 4 metres above the ground.

On the inside face of the wall, at the level of the lower gallery, is a stone ledge, or scarcement.

Scarcement ledges at heights of 2.1 and 3.7 metres would have supported these timber buildings.

A supporting (scarcement) ledge is evident in the interior of the broch.

Although the remaining wall is higher than nine meters, there is no trace of a higher scarcement found.

It is likely that there was an upper wooden floor, as the scarcement (ledge) which could hold such a floor is visible 2 meters above ground level.

There are mural cells and there is a scarcement (ledge) for timber-framed lean-to dwellings lining the inner face of the wall.

In its original condition it may have contained a wooden roundhouse resting on the scarcement ledges and presumably on a ring of posts set into the primary floor.

Unlike the more staid and less affluent families of Racervine Park, residents of Scarcement Chase did not adhere so strictly to Ixmaritian law.

From other Ixmaritians in the house, he learned that certain estates, even in Scarcement Chase itself, tended to adopt a more stringent Ixmaritian code for their vibrancers and priests.

Culswick Broch was better preserved in 1774 when George Low's drawing shows three complete intra-mural galleries preserved on top of the buried lower storey as well as a scarcement ledge on the inside face.