Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- tower
- Image
- Broch Dun Carloway Lewis Schottland.jpg
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- Commons category
- Brochs
- topic's main category
- Category:Brochs
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- different from
- Broch
- time period
- Iron Age
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- Origin and definition
- Distribution
- Purposes
- Structures
- Heritage status
- New broch planned
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- References and footnotes
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Broch of Mousa
In archaeology, a broch is an Iron Age drystone hollow-walled structure found in Scotland. Brochs belong to the classification "complex Atlantic roundhouse" devised by Scottish archaeologists in the 1980s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “broch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.