🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Crosskirk Broch
Early Iron Age to Norse (c.600 BCE–900 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age / Norse
Eroded Caithness cliff broch with early fort, broch tower and Norse layers; half lost to sea after 1960s excavation.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Iron Age to Norse (c.600 BCE–900 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age / Norse
Eroded Caithness cliff broch with early fort, broch tower and Norse layers; half lost to sea after 1960s excavation.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Iron Age (c.300–100 BCE) · Atlantic Iron Age (Shetland)
World's tallest surviving broch (13.3 m), perfectly preserved Iron Age tower on uninhabited Mousa island.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age · Atlantic Iron Age
Old Scatness Broch Village at Shetland, United Kingdom is a Iron Age ancient village of the Atlantic Iron Age tradition, built c. 400 BCE for broch with wheelhouse village.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Iron Age · Atlantic Iron Age
Broch of Gurness Orkney at Orkney, United Kingdom is a Iron Age megalithic of the Atlantic Iron Age tradition, built c. 200 BCE for broch with external village and ditch.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Iron Age (c.200 BCE–200 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age (Orcadian)
Finely preserved Rousay broch on Eynhallow Sound with intramural galleries and adjacent chambered cairn.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Bronze Age to Iron Age (c.1000 BCE–500 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age
Multi-phase broch on loch islet near Lerwick with unique blockhouse forework and wheelhouse overbuild.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Iron Age · Atlantic Iron Age
Mousa Broch Tower at Shetland, United Kingdom is a Iron Age megalithic of the Atlantic Iron Age tradition, built c. 300 BCE for 13.3 m dry-stone broch tower.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Multi-period: Neolithic to Medieval (c.2500 BCE–1600 CE) · Neolithic → Bronze Age → Iron Age (Broch) → Pictish → Norse
4,000-year layered settlement mound at Shetland's southern tip with broch, wheelhouses, Viking longhouse and medieval farm.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware / Maeshowe tradition
Rousay's unique two-storey cairn — lower and upper chambers stacked in 15 m round mound.
