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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age to Medieval (c.400 BCE–1400 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age / Pictish / Norse
Iron Age broch village opposite Jarlshof with Pictish and Viking layers; one of Scotland's largest modern excavations.
🇬🇧 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.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Earthwork
Late Bronze Age to Early Medieval (c.1100 BCE–800 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age / Early Medieval Gaelic
Cliff-edge triple stone fort on Inishmore (6 ha) with massive chevaux-de-frise of jagged limestone — Ireland's most dramatic hillfort.
🇬🇧 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 · Megalith
Iron Age (c.100 BCE–400 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age (Orcadian) / possible Roman contact
Iron Age underground sanctuary in Tankerness with 29-step stair descending 7.5 m to a corbelled chamber.
🇬🇧 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.