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It's a hugely ambitious undertaking as so little is known about these mysterious buildings. i think it's a very adventurous idea to build a broch. it will teach us an incredible amount about how to go about building and dry stone to build a structure so large. and the design of our broch, we've tried to base it as much as we can on archaeological evidence. i think what we really hope to achieve is a more thorough understanding of brochs, and how they were built might kind of play into ideas of why they were built as well. so as we go through the process of constructing a broch then maybe we'll...

Of constructing a broch then maybe we'll get a better insight into the minds of broch builders in the past as well, because there are so many unanswered questions about the iron age, how iron age societies work, how did they kind of revolve around the brochs or how two brochs revolved around iron age societies? the building of the broch will be as much of an attraction as it as a complete structure. the most broch store found right here in caithness. so we like to think that caithness is the home of the broch. the caithness broch project is currently searching for the ideal site to begin the c...