Brochs: Ingeniously Engineered Windowless Iron Age Structures Of North And West Scotland
MessageToEagle.com | October 26, 2023 | Ancient Places, Ancient Technology, Ancient World | No Comments
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Already three centuries ago (in 1726), John Toland wrote that brochs or the so-called ‘Pictish Towers’ “are apt all over Scotland to make everything Pictish, whose origin they do not know.’
Broch in Dun Carloway. Image credit: Morris R. Maciver – CC BY-SA 2.5
It is estimated that at least seven hundred brochs once existed across Scotland. Some five hundred brochs, or their remains, are still surviving in Scotland. Now, most of them are in a poor state of repair, but some successfully resisted weather extremes resemble the cooling towers of modern power stations.
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