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Dun Beag is one of the best preserved brochs and a good example of a broch tower. Brochs only appear in Scotland. They are dry stone structures formed of two concentric walls with a narrow entrance passage. Stone stairs ran between the walls to provide access, perhaps to upper floors, and the top. Scotland’s brochs were built in the Iron Age, first emerging about 2,300 years ago. Their use continued until the middle of the first millennium CE. “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” Philip Pullman It’s World Book Day and I am reminded of the need for a good read. This photograph was thrown up by my ‘phone this morning. I can remember the day and the time. It could be the start of a good story… @ChaHarper I have nothing to say about this other than to describe it. It’s the view from the road on the way down to the beach near here. The sun wasn’t setting. It was only about 13:30hrs. However the sun is very low in the sky at this time of year. The clouds are coloured by the pale sun and the sea shimmers with the reflection of it. In the foreground is a grassy slope that goes down to the gate which we use to access the seashore. In the far distance is the Island of Rhum.
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@ChaHarper That's pretty crazy what 20 degrees of latitude does, I always forget how north Scotland is! I am at 40N and the sun is low, but definitely not like that! |
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@ChaHarper We're so glad we got to visit Dun Beach when we visited Skye this past May. It's a very special place.
@ChaHarper There's the substantial remains of a building with many of the features of a broch, including the hollow centre, and the double walls and apparent accommodation within them, but roughly rectangular in plan, at Castlehaven Bay near Borgue, in Galloway. Whether it's a related to brochs or not I'm not qualified to say.
@ChaHarper they are tantalisingly similar to the nuraghi of Sardinia.
And I can’t remember where I read it but I seem to recall that our sheep are descended from Sardinian sheep.