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)