#broch

[thesilicontribesman]

Dunbeath Iron Age Broch, Caithness, Scotland

#ice age #stone age #bronze age #iron age #copper age #broch #settlement #ancient craft #ancient cultures #ancient living #ancient sites #stonework #tribal #community #Scotland #Caithness #archaeology

[ancientorigins]

Scotland’s Orkney Islands are home to an astonishing number of neolithic sites. From the settlement of Skara Brae to the Broch of Gurness, the islands are full of mysteries.

#Orkney #Lighthouse #Scotland #Stone Age #Skara Brae #Broch #Neolithic #ancient #history #ancient origins

[zou-san]

Sutherland, Scotland

#photography #photographers on tumblr #scotland #sutherland #broch

[scotianostra]

Winter Allt Dearg and Glamaig by John Howie Via Flickr: It's all cold and blue, till the sun gets lower than the clouds, then there's a short but vivid blast of reflected orange.....

#glamaig #cuillinridge #verofirst #verolandscapes #verophotographycollective #cuillin #verophotographycommunity #isleofskye #isleofskyescotland #isleofskyeofficial #broch #weather_photography #scotlandcreatives #podium #landscape__photography #landscapelovers #explore_landscapes #mountain_world #mountainview #StormHour #landscape_captures #landscapes #scotland #visitscotland #instascotland #scotspirit #nature_geography__ig #flickr

[theshatterednotes]

Austrian author Herman Broch

#Herman Broch #Broch #Austria #Austrian #Austrian-American #American #America #connecticut #Vienna #Wien #New Haven #1900's #modernism #author #novelist #writer #1886 #1951 #1950's #1880's #1800's #Austria-Hungary #The Sleepwalkers #The Death of Virgil

[azvolrien]

Took a run out today to visit some relatives up in the north - as in, only a few miles south of just being in the sea again - and on the way back stopped for a look at the Borg, which has nothing to do with Star Trek but is the name of the nearby broch, from an Old Norse term for fort.

It's not the best preserved broch, having been (I assume) scavenged for building materials and knocked about by the weather over the centuries, but it is actually better-preserved than I remembered it being. You can still see where the doorway was, for example, although it's too blocked to actually get through.

I don't know if it's in the care of anyone in particular other than the locals - certainly there isn't a noticeboard there or even much of a path up to it beyond a sheep track - or even if it's ever been formally excavated, though there is a Canmore database entry with a few sketches so at least someone has given it a cursory survey.

It has a pretty good location on a rise above the Halladale River, commanding great views along the strath. I wonder if the area would have been more forested back in the Iron Age, or if the soil's never really been good enough for that.

#photo #broch #the borg (broch)

[bluesman56]

Brock of Gurney by Tony

#Broch of Gurness #East Mainland #Eynhallow Sound #Orkney #Scotland #archiology #britain #broch #europe #historic #iron age #island #remains #©2021 Tony Sherratt #2021 09 20 120034 #flickr

[negreabsolut]

Recreació d'un poblat celta de tipus broch.

#art #dibuix #història #història antiga #poblat celta #broch #celta #cèltic #Edat del ferro

[sammeldeineknochen]

Dichtung ist Traum, aber einer, der sich seines Träumens immer wieder bewußt wird und darob zum Traumlächeln werden kann.

Hermann Broch: “Hofmannsthal und seine Zeit”, S.204

#hermann broch #broch #hofmannsthal #hofmannsthal und seine Zeit #traum #dichtung #bewußtsein #reflexion #traumlächeln

[mateopgiraldo]

“Insaciable nostalgia del hombre, que nunca se deja aniquilar, a lo sumo torcerse hacia lo perverso y adverso, sin dejar sin embargo de ser nostalgia.”

La muerte de Virgilio / Broch, H (1945)

#lit #frases #literatura #prose #books #broch

[thesilicontribesman]

Dunbeath Iron Age Broch, Caithness, Scotland

#ice age #stone age #bronze age #copper age #iron age #neolithic #mesolithic #calcholithic #paleolithic #prehistory #prehistoric #broch #settlement #community #building #Scotland #stonework #cells #walls #archaeology

[ancientorigins]

The wilds of Scotland are home to strange Iron Age structures known as brochs. For years they’ve puzzled archaeologists, but a new project hopes to find their true purpose.

#Scotland #Broch #Iron Age #Fortifications #ancient #history #ancient origins

[smellofwater]

Clickimin Broch - Lerwick

Clickimin Broch timeline a late Bronze Age house, outbuilding and enclosure an early Iron Age enclosed site, consisting of a stout wall with a shallow ditch across the isthmus connecting the islet to the mainland a middle Iron Age broch, with later alterations, and a blockhouse with a central passage and cells erected within the ring-fort a later Iron Age wheelhouse-type building, inserted…

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#23 #archaeology #Broch #Clickimin #Lerwick #Prehistory #Shetland #Urban Archaeology

[scotianostra]

The Bhasteir Tooth Winter Sunset by John Howie Via Flickr: The Bhasteir Tooth in yesterday's mellow sunset...

#cuillinridge #verofirst #verolandscapes #verophotographycollective #cuillin #verophotographycommunity #isleofskye #isleofskyescotland #isleofskyeofficial #broch #weather_photography #scotlandcreatives #podium #landscape__photography #landscapelovers #explore_landscapes #mountain_world #mountainview #StormHour #landscape_captures #landscapes #scotland #visitscotland #instascotland #scotspirit #nature_geography__ig #flickr

[abeycostore]

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[azvolrien]

Took a drive out today to visit Dun Dornaigil, a broch I’ve read about but have never before seen in person for reasons on which I shall shortly elaborate. It sits above the Strathmore River in the shadow of Ben Hope, Scotland’s most northerly Munro, and while you can’t get inside it any more - the doorway has been walled off, and the interior is full of the rubble of the collapsed walls - what remains is, I would say, at number five in the ‘Best Preserved Brochs’ list after Mousa, Dun Telve, Dun Carloway and Dun Troddan, and the hefty triangular lintel above the door is an interesting feature. I might steal that for Dun Ardech, actually.

So, the aforementioned reasons! You remember when I said that the Glenelg brochs are in the middle of nowhere? Yeah, no, not in comparison. Permit me to illustrate!

It’s very isolated. Unlike a lot of the neighbouring straths, Strathmore was never really resettled after the Clearances and I think I passed a grand total of one inhabited house on the drive along from Altnaharra. A busy trunk road, it is not; people don’t really go by it unless they’re as interested in brochs as I am or going to climb Ben Hope - the trail up the mountain starts about a mile and a half north of Dun Dornaigil.

#photo #broch #scotland