Caithness Broch Project

Featuring surprisingly few posts about brochs (SC046307).

[Caithness Broch Project @TheBrochProject]

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HELLO.

Some of you might be new here. Where've you been all this time?

We're Caithness Broch Project, and we love brochs!

What are brochs, though? They're 40ft, multi-floored Iron Age towers, thought to be houses, found only in #Scotland.

AND WE WANT TO BUILD ONE!

[Noel H @klondyker]

Castle Sinclair Girnigoe by land.

Return visit as such a cool castle. Skylarks & curlew on walk in, fulmars nesting on cliffs and walls, hawk after rock doves, amazing geology and views. Talk of orca both north & south but I've not seen yet sadly.

#OrcaWatch #Caithness #RealGOT

[Dr Murray Cook @murrayJamescoo1]

All backfilled but here is a summary of our Torwood Broch dig! And an amazing find!

[Dr Murray Cook @murrayJamescoo1]

Day 1 of our Torwood broch dig and a 2000 year old secret!

[Dr Murray Cook @murrayJamescoo1]

Results day 1 at Torwood Broch….. Newly uncovered 2000 year old wall…… and Barry!

[Caithness Broch Project @TheBrochProject]

@klondyker @GroatNews @VisitScotland @hiddenscotland_ @NtlMuseumsScot @MuseumWick @HighlandHistory @HughHarrop Were you on the boat with Caithness Seacoast?

[Noel H @klondyker]

Castle Sinclair Girnigoe from sea

Build in 1400s (possibly on older fortification), home to Earl of Caithness. Long mixed history with links to the St Clairs/Sinclairs, Rosslyn Chapel, Knights Templar, Orkney, and too much more for a tweet to cover. Cue Game of Thrones music...

[Dr Murray Cook @murrayJamescoo1]

Office today Torwood broch…. Central Scotland’s biggest prehistoric building!

[Caithness Broch Project @TheBrochProject]

What do you mean you don't own a bottle of broch-inspired #whisky yet thats preposterous

buy it

buy it now:

https://t.co/pTH7tHvotp

(£10 from each bottle goes towards the #bigbrochbuild yay!!)

[Caithness Broch Project @TheBrochProject]

Achcomhairle Broch. The field of the council/meeting.

Has the distinction of being nearly indistinct from the landscape, it having the impression of a thumb pressed into soft clay.

[Caithness Broch Project @TheBrochProject]

One way of keeping an eye on the lambing I suppose!

https://t.co/i1dwZK1gS1

#standingstone

[Andrew Spratt @andrewsp2009]

Scrabster Castle beside #WW2 Pillbox,Caithness (Scotland) It's thought there might be a broch underlying this medieval structure, which is thought to date to at least the 14th C. It may have even featured in the #Orkneyinga Saga! @TheBrochProject info/image turned into a mock-up

[Caithness Broch Project @TheBrochProject]

Fuck you, @bagpipes.

[Caithness Broch Project @TheBrochProject]

and then i hit em up with the ol' "you know they pose more questions than answers"

[Caithness Broch Project @TheBrochProject]

POV you're at the broch party and the guy with the crazy stones says "let's do that thing we do with these crazy stones" and then they just go right ahead and do the thing

[Kenny Brophy @urbanprehisto]

#UrbanePrehistory

[weird medieval guys @WeirdMedieval]

buy a bottle of whiskey, support the reconstruction of an iron age scottish tower!!! what a sweet deal!!

[Caithness Broch Project @TheBrochProject]

@WeirdMedieval Thank youuuu!!

[Caithness Broch Project @TheBrochProject]

WE MADE A BROCH-THEMED WHISKY

And every bottle purchased goes towards building A BROCH

If you would like to get yerself a bottle, check the link below:

https://t.co/pTH7tHvotp

Thank you, pals.

[Caithness Broch Project @TheBrochProject]

BROCHS AND WHISKY WHISKY AND BROCHS

It's a broch-themed whisky

every purchase gets us closer to one of those 2,000 year-old bad boys

Head to https://t.co/pTH7tHvotp and get yourself a bottle

we really appreciate it & hope you enjoy it too!!

@Whisky_Blender #whisky #brochs

[Dr Murray Cook @murrayJamescoo1]

An amazing document. One of the most amazing aspects is that it argues that the Picts were replaced by invading Scots. We now know this was nonsense and caused by a Viking invasion that destroyed the Pictish state … we then rebranded as Scots!