Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Doune Broch

Out on the west side of Lewis is a somewhat preserved
broch, Doune Broch, one of those circular, double-walled
towers the residents of Scotland put up in the Bronze Age
and thereafter. Sort of a predecessor to the tower houses, I
guess. Shaped, originally, like one of those nuclear reactor
cooling towers. Animals on the ground floor, etc. This one
was inhabited until the 1st century BC.











Doune Broch











Interior....beautiful dry stone work, here as at
other places












Interior staircase (that is, between the inner
and outer walls)

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