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Used as Lallybroch (also known as Broch Tuarach) in the drama series 'Outlander' , Midhope Castle is a 16th-century tower house located in Abercorn, just west of South Queensferry, on the Hopetoun estate. Midhope Castle is every bit as impressive in real life as Jamie Fraser's anchestual home Lallybroch, with the familiar approach and entrance to the building.
Broch Tuarach means 'North-facing tower' in Gaelic.
This large town church was built in the mid 19th century and was previously a United Free Church before becoming Church of Scotland at some point in the 20th century. It was built in a prominent location in the planned fishing village of Burghead, still a busy place with a fairly busy harbour and large primary school.
Doon Castle Broch, near Ardwell Point in the Rhins of Galloway. Recently cleared of rubble, this very rare example of an Iron Age broch in SW Scotland, is now much easier to see.
The Iron Age broch (stone tower) at Carloway, Outer Hebrides.
From Wikipedia:
Most brochs were built in the period from 100 BC to 100 AD. Dun Carloway was probably built in the 1st century AD.[1] It probably got its current name from the Norse Karlavagr ("Karl's bay"), a relic of its time as part of the Kingdom of the Isles. Through the centuries Dun Carloway remained in use until the floor level was too high due to build-up of the occupation layers.[2]
The broch was occasionally used in later times as a stronghold. The Morrisons of Ness put Dun Carloway into use in 1601. The story goes that they had stolen cattle from the MacAuleys of Uig. The MacAuleys wanted their cattle back and found the Morrisons in the broch. One of them, Donald Cam MacAuley, climbed the outer wall using two daggers and managed to smoke out the inhabitants by throwing heather into the broch and then setting fire to it.[3][4] The MacAuleys then destroyed the broch.[3]
Presumably in the 16th century the walls of the broch were still largely intact. By the middle of the 19th century a large portion of the top of the wall had disappeared, the stones being re-used in other buildings.[5] The situation in 1861 is shown in a drawing published in 1890 by Captain Thomas.[6] To prevent further decay Dun Carloway was in 1882 one of the first officially protected monuments in Scotland.[5] Five years later, the broch was placed under state management. Since then, restoration has been performed on the broch. At the beginning of the 20th century and in the 1970s there was limited archaeological excavation.[2]
A stroll around Burghead Harbour today, always provides the opportunity to capture something different!
Dun Carloway, ~100 AD, an Iron Age roundhouse tower of double walled drystone construction and one of the best preserved of the many Scottish brochs. It has a spiral staircase winding upwards between the inner and outer walls. The purpose of the brochs is still subject to debate. Doune, Outer Herbrides, Isle of Lewis, Scotland.
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Burghead is a small town in Moray, Scotland, about 8 miles north-west of Elgin. The town is mainly built on a peninsula that projects north-westward into the Moray Firth, meaning that most of the town has sea on 3 sides.
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.
Burghead is a long, sandy beach. At low tide there is vast, wide expanse of sand, but this all but disappears when the tide comes in. It is a popular place for boating as well as for walking along the beach, taking in the scenery.
This part of the Moray coastline is one of the best places in the country for spotting dolphins and even, if you’re very lucky, whales. Behind the beach there are sand dunes as well as a nature reserve. Roseisle Forest lies south of Burghead Beach Caravan Park. It offers a picnic and play area and trails through the scented pinewoods.
Hermann Broch
Well, I think that Hermann was exaggerating a bit, but just a bit. :o) Seriously though, I've lived by one sea or another my entire life, and while I love going inland I am always drawn back to the sea and often crave it like a drug.
Dun Carloway is a broch situated in the district of Carloway, on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. It is a remarkably well preserved broch – on the east side parts of the old wall still reach to 9 metres tall. Wikipedia
Dun Troddan is a broch, one of around five hundred to be found across mainly the north and west of Scotland. Brochs were built in the last centuries BC and the first centuries AD and were circular in plan, rising to a height of 13 metres or more: this is the height of the best preserved example, Mousa Broch in the Shetland Islands.