@TheBrochProject

Featuring surprisingly few posts about brochs (SC046307).

 Caithness, Scotland
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Joined March 2013
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Chris Aitken MM0WIC@skipperAitkenOct 21
The news is big, even worth carrying 5 cones up that hill big
Caithness Broch Project@TheBrochProjectOct 21
Big Broch news in the pipeline people! 📢 We say that a lot, but we mean it. Stay tuned. #BigBrochBuild
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Andrew Spratt@andrewsp2009Oct 3
Ousdale Broch, Caithness (Scotland) @TheBrochProject image and mock-up suggestion from 2021. #ScottishBrochs #HistoryRebuilt
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Andrew Spratt@andrewsp2009Sep 10
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.
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Dr Murray Cook@murrayJamescoo1Jul 14
Office today a possible broch near Doune!
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Kevin Wilbraham@KPW1453Jul 11
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
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Magnus Davidson@DavidsonMagnusJun 30
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.
The Herald
@heraldscotlandJun 29
EXCLUSIVE The report, carried out by Great British Energy-Nuclear, identifies several areas of Scotland as potentially suitable for future nuclear projects, including small modular reactors and large-scale power stations 👇
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Noel H@klondykerMay 23
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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Dr Murray Cook@murrayJamescoo1May 22
All backfilled but here is a summary of our Torwood Broch dig! And an amazing find!
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Dr Murray Cook@murrayJamescoo1May 21
Day 1 of our Torwood broch dig and a 2000 year old secret!
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Dr Murray Cook@murrayJamescoo1May 21
Results day 1 at Torwood Broch….. Newly uncovered 2000 year old wall…… and Barry!
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Noel H@klondykerMay 21
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...
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Dr Murray Cook@murrayJamescoo1May 21
Office today Torwood broch…. Central Scotland’s biggest prehistoric building!
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Andrew Spratt@andrewsp2009May 6
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
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Kenny Brophy@urbanprehistoApr 16
#UrbanePrehistory
Caithness Broch Project@TheBrochProjectApr 15
WE MADE A BROCH-THEMED WHISKY And every bottle purchased goes towards building A BROCH If you would like to get yerself a bottle, check the link below: whiskyblender.com/products/o… Thank you, pals.
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buy a bottle of whiskey, support the reconstruction of an iron age scottish tower!!! what a sweet deal!!
Caithness Broch Project@TheBrochProjectApr 15
WE MADE A BROCH-THEMED WHISKY And every bottle purchased goes towards building A BROCH If you would like to get yerself a bottle, check the link below: whiskyblender.com/products/o… Thank you, pals.
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Dr Murray Cook@murrayJamescoo1Apr 6
An amazing document. One of the most amazing aspects is that it argues that the Picts were replaced by invading Scots. We now know this was nonsense and caused by a Viking invasion that destroyed the Pictish state … we then rebranded as Scots!
Undiscovered Scotland
@UndisScotApr 6
On this day in history. The Declaration of Arbroath, probably the most important and influential document in Scottish history and considered by UNESCO to be of world significance, was dated 6 April 1320: making it 706 years old today. More pics and info: undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/a…
The Declaration of Arbroath. The image shows a replica of the declaration on display in a Perspex box. It is a large single sheet with closely spaced lines of writing at the end furthest from the viewer. At the near end it is cut into multiple vertical strips, each of which has a red or black wax seal on it. AT the bottom of the image is an interpretive panel giving background to the declaration.

ALT The Declaration of Arbroath. The image shows a replica of the declaration on display in a Perspex box. It is a large single sheet with closely spaced lines of writing at the end furthest from the viewer. At the near end it is cut into multiple vertical strips, each of which has a red or black wax seal on it. AT the bottom of the image is an interpretive panel giving background to the declaration.

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Magnus Davidson@DavidsonMagnusMar 20
This is not uniform across the whole of Scotland with ‘peripheral’ areas continuing 19th and 20th century long trend of depopulation and out-migration. Our north Highland population has halved in the last two centuries whilst Scotland’s has doubled, with no abatement in sight.
Kevin Pringle@KevinJPringleMar 20
Since just after the millennium, an under-appreciated feature of Scotland is how the heavy net loss of people to rUK (and beyond), that was such a feature of the 20th century, has reversed. Some older stats, as well as the new HMRC data. gov.scot/publications/intern…
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Dun Dornaigil, an Iron Age broch by the Strathmore River in north west Sutherland, 1920s. Brochs are drystone roundhouses found only in Scotland. This one was built at least 2,300 years ago [source: HLH Archives, D1751/2/2/11]
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Dr Murray Cook@murrayJamescoo1Mar 15
We don’t really know how high Mousa survived to, as it got tidied up by the ministry of works! But perhaps the tallest surviving pre-Christian building in NW Europe!
Iain Cameron
@theiaincameronMar 15
The best-preserved pre-Christian building in the UK. The Broch of Mousa, on a small island in Shetland, is 2,300 years old and almost its original height. It is the most complete example of this type of building, one of 500 built in Scotland and nowhere else.
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Andrew Spratt@andrewsp2009Mar 16
The Broch of Gurness, Orkney (Scotland) reconstruction mock up over @HoganSOG image. #ScottishBrochs #HistoryRebuilt
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