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Broch of Mousa
 
Broch of Mousa and Burgataing. Cattle grazing nearby broch. Mousa Broch is the finest example of a 2000 year old Iron Age tower or broch anywhere. It stands 13.3 metres high. Most Brochs have been dismantled throughout time by succeeding dwellers who found other uses for the stone. However, the Mousa example has remained more or less unchanged over the last 2000 years due, largely, to its remote location.
Storm petrels (alamooties) nest within its stone chambers. Feeding far out to sea, these tiny swallow like birds return to their nests under the cover of darkness to avoid other larger predatory seabirds.
  • Sandwick
  • Rattar, J D
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