Painted in acrylics and inspired by the crannog model by Stuart Fellowes, this painting depicts a typical crannog in the iron age.

A crannog is an artificial island, found in many lochs all over Scotland, used for settlement and defence. The crannog was reached from the shore by either a stone causeway or wooden gangway. Construction was generally a solid timber or “wattle and daub” palisade, which surrounded a roundhouse. On larger crannogs, several roundhouses were built providing homes for many families.

Earliest crannogs date back around 3000 years but they were more prolific in the Iron age, 2600 – 2000 years ago. Some crannogs were still in use up to around AD 1400.

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