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10 sectionsContents
- Origin and definition
- Distribution
- Purposes
- Structures
- Heritage status
- New broch planned
- See also
- References and footnotes
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Broch of Mousa
In archaeology, a broch is an Iron Age drystone hollow-walled structure found in Scotland. Brochs belong to the classification "complex Atlantic roundhouse" devised by Scottish archaeologists in the 1980s.