Brochs: The mysterious circular symbols of Scotland
Brochs: The mysterious circular symbols of Scotland
Sep 16, 2022
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Dun Carloway is one of the best preserved Brochs (stone-built circular constructions) in Britain. There is still uncertainty as to why these brochs were built, but it is now accepted by many that they were the homes and defensive forts of wealthy and powerful families during the Iron Age. Standing at nearly seven metres tall (although archaeologists estimate it originally stood at 13m), Dun Carloway is thought to have been constructed around 2000 years ago and the construction and thickness of t
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Dun Carloway “Dun Charlabhaigh” is one of the best preserved of all broch towers in Scotland, but it may also have been one of the last to bebuilt, perhaps sometime in the first century BC.The story of the brochs, however, began many centuries earlier.Iron Age Status Symbols?Although their walls would have deterred most intruders, brochs were essentially defensible farmhouses rather than occasional refuges from pirates, raiders, or even neighbours. Structures like Dun Charlabhaigh could house an
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