Featuring surprisingly few posts about brochs (SC046307).
Caithness, Scotland
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HELLO.
Some of you might be new here. Where've you been all this time?
We're Caithness Broch Project, and we love brochs!
What are brochs, though? They're 40ft, multi-floored Iron Age towers, thought to be houses, found only in #Scotland.
AND WE WANT TO BUILD ONE!
A beautiful video, featuring wur very own Dawn Maclean. Please watch!
youtube.com/watch?v=p_o8tk8e…
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Ousdale Broch, Caithness (Scotland) @TheBrochProject
image and mock-up suggestion from 2021. #ScottishBrochs #HistoryRebuilt
We're sorry to hear about Dr. Rena Maguire, who has passed away. She followed us from really *really* early days on here. Our thoughts go out to her family.
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Scrabster Castle beside #WW2 Pillbox,Caithness (Scotland) It's thought there might be a broch underlying this medieval structure, which is thought to date to at least the 14th C. It may have even featured in the #Orkneyinga Saga! @TheBrochProject info/image turned into a mock-up.
👉 BROCH POINTING MASTERCLASS
👉 Thurs 17th September
👉 @TarbatDiscovery
👉 7.30pm
In this sermon CBPs Kenny will guide you through the basics of pointing at brochs and other mounds, elevating your broch fingering skills to another level.
#Caithness #Brochs
WE'RE DOING OUR FIRST EVER TALK AT THE HIGHLAND ARCHAEOLOGY FESTIVAL CONFERENCE!
🎉🎉🥳🥳
What an honour.... FOR THEM!!!!!!!!!! hahahahahahaha lololol
Looking forward to it - great line up on both days for sure!
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So, what did the ancient broch builders make of phenomenon such as solar eclipses?
HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW
DOES IT LOOK I HAVE A TIME MACHINE
GROW UP
A visit to Mousa Broch!
Our Chairman Pete took the @TheMousaBoat1 over to the iconic #Mousa Broch in Shetland - and what a sight it was to behold.
If you're looking to feel inspired by some broch-tastic archaeology, then read Pete's experience here:
thebrochproject.co.uk/.../a-…
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Surviving stairway from Ousdale Broch in Caithness. Dating to the Iron Age, the broch had been beautifully conserved by the Caithness Broch Project @TheBrochProject 📸 My own. #StairwellSaturday #OusdaleBroch #Prehistory #Caithness
When is a broch not a broch?🤔🧐
A broch blog by young brochateer Evelynn Cook looking at the pratfalls of thinking you've seen a broch when in reality you are just CHASING THE DRAGON.
So, here's a few handy hints when you're out and about!
thebrochproject.co.uk/blog/w…
#brochs
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Over a fifth of the local economy in the north Highlands, and around one in four jobs, are supported by the nuclear industry in Caithness and north Sutherland.
The only industry in the last 165 years to reverse post-clearance north Highland population decline.
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Castle Sinclair Girnigoe by land.
Return visit as such a cool castle. Skylarks & curlew on walk in, fulmars nesting on cliffs and walls, hawk after rock doves, amazing geology and views. Talk of orca both north & south but I've not seen yet sadly.
#OrcaWatch #Caithness #RealGOT
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All backfilled but here is a summary of our Torwood Broch dig! And an amazing find!
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Results day 1 at Torwood Broch….. Newly uncovered 2000 year old wall…… and Barry!
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Castle Sinclair Girnigoe from sea
Build in 1400s (possibly on older fortification), home to Earl of Caithness. Long mixed history with links to the St Clairs/Sinclairs, Rosslyn Chapel, Knights Templar, Orkney, and too much more for a tweet to cover. Cue Game of Thrones music...
