Scotland Magazine section Scotland Archaeology

Iron Age mysteries

The Scottish landscape is dotted with ruined stone towers known as brochs, Christopher McCooey looks how and why they were built.

In shape, and from a distance, it would have looked something like a small cooling tower. But up close, this was no smooth concrete concave structure. It was a dry-stone hollow-walled tower, entered at ground level and which had steps to take you between the two outer and inner walls up to the top. ...

By Christopher McCooley from Issue 37 published on 20/03/2008