Archaeological sites · Scottish Islands
Mousa Broch
Shetland's 13m Iron Age broch — the best-preserved in Scotland, 2,000 years old.
Russel Wills — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 45 min–1.5 h
About
Mousa Broch on the small uninhabited island of Mousa in Shetland is the tallest and best-preserved Iron Age broch in Scotland — 13 metres high, 2,000 years old, with internal stairs you can still climb to the top. Boat trips run from Sandwick May-September; the broch is also home to a colony of European storm-petrels nesting in its walls.
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From the Wikipedia article
Mousa may refer to: Mousa (film) Mousa (name) Mousa, Shetland, an island in Scotland Mousa Ali, a stratovolcano located on the tri-point of Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti 12130 Mousa, a minor planet
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
- Coordinates
- 60.0017, -1.1825
Sources
- manual: mousa-broch (manual)
- wikipedia: Mousa (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Cinematic fly-through
Rendered from Environment Agency LIDAR (OGL v3) using Blender. Drag the timeline to scrub.
3D view
Drag to rotate · scroll to zoom · Copernicus DEM 30m / European Space Agency (CC BY 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Mousa Broch?
- Mousa Broch is in the Scottish Islands, United Kingdom.
- When was Mousa Broch built?
- Dates from the Iron Age period.
- Who owns Mousa Broch?
- Mousa Broch is owned by Historic Environment Scotland.