I found another, more intact broch. Clickimin Broch is on the edge of Lerwick, with service station in front and a supermarket across the road, and houses around. Not some remote corner. It was built about 2400-2100 year ago, so about mid-Iron Age. They don’t know who built it or what it was used for or how it originally looked, but it’s very cool.
The broch is on a promontory that was once an island with a causeway.
There’s the causeway.
Entry to the complex is through a blockhouse, which is apparently unusual.
Entry from the side.
There are remains of other structures within the wall that might be Bronze Age, early Iron Age and a later wheelhouse.
Entry to the broch is through a low passageway. Let’s just say I’ve decided there was a good reason women started wearing their hair in buns.
Entry to the broch is through a low passageway.
Inside. Entrance to the right.
See that little door to the left, it leads to a very low, very narrow but fortunately short passage.
At the end of the very low, very narrow passage. There seems to another room above.
Looking back into the interior
There’s a little bit of upstairs
including a stone staircase.
The exit from the broch.
A little view of outside.
Leaving through the blockhouse.
