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Short summary of excavations at Thrumster Broch, July 2011


A classic broch tower is a cooling-tower-shaped drystone-built structure, unique to Scotland, and iconic of that nation’s Iron Age.  Over 200 of the roughly 700 brochs in Scotland are to be found in Caithness, which in consequence has the highest … Continue reading

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