#clickimin

Clickimin Broch, near Lerwick, Shetland

This is a well-preserved Iron Age style broch from roughly the 1st Century AD. The site was occupied since the Late Bronze Age and originally the peninsular would have been a small island, accessible by a stone causeway. The broch was probably quite impenetrable at the time. It has been restored and is maintained by Historic Scotland, but free to visit. It is quite well preserved for being right next to Shetlands biggest town. 

Clickimin Broch timeline a late Bronze Age house, outbuilding and enclosure an early Iron Age enclosed site, consisting of a stout wall with a shallow ditch across the isthmus connecting the islet to the mainland a middle Iron Age broch, with later alterations, and a blockhouse with a central passage and cells erected within the ring-fort a later Iron Age wheelhouse-type building, inserted…