Why did ancient Scots build their mysterious ‘skyscrapers’? Now modern Scots are to build one to help us find out If Ken McElroy gets his way, a very unusual feature will soon be added to the wild ...

A new digital image has been created of a planned reconstruction of an Iron Age broch. The towers, which have only been found in Scotland, were built to heights of 12m (40ft). Caithness Broch Project ...

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A tourist visits Mousa Broch, the tallest known Iron Age broch and one of Europe's best-preserved prehistoric buildings Photo by Arterra / Universal Images Group via Getty Images In 2013, ...

IT is certainly an old design for a new home build. A £1m Iron Age roundhouse is set to be built in Caithness. The reconstruction will use ancient methods that built similar mysterious structures in ...

Scotland is to get its first new 'broch', a towering structure built by the country's Iron Age inhabitants, in 2,000 years. The tall, double-walled drystone towers have only been found in the country, ...

A Scottish historical charity has just announced plans to build the first broch in Scotland in almost 2,000 years. The Caithness Broch Project (CBP) are planning on resurrecting one of these ...

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