Tour Scotland Travel Video Broch of Mousa Shetland Islands

Tour Scotland travel Blog video of of the Broch of Mousa, located on Mousa, a small island on ancestry visit to the Shetland Islands, Scotland. Mousa Broch is the best preserved Iron Age fortification in the British Isles The 2000 year old round tower stands above a rocky shoreline, one of a pair of brochs guarding Mousa Sound. They may be part of a chain of brochs in this part of Shetland, visible from each other as beacons. The other of the "pair", at Burland on the Mainland is far less well preserved. Many brochs were the focus of a settlement, but there has never been a full archaeological investigation to confirm this at Mousa. It was cleared out in 1860 and 1919. Mousa has survived intact to such a height and is thought to never have been much higher than it is today. It escaped stone gathering for nearby stone walls and croft houses, now ruined. Mousa is mentioned in the Orkneyinga Saga as being used as a place of defence during invasions, as well as a lovers' hideout.

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