broch
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
broch (plural brochs)
- (archaeology) A type of Iron Age stone tower with hollow double-layered walls found on Orkney and Shetland and parts of the Scottish mainland.
- 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), page 268:
- Finella's carles builded the Kaimes, a long line of battlements under the hills, midway a tower that was older still, a broch from the days of the Pictish men […].
- 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), page 268:
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