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#Clickimin

For #TravelThursday here's the Broch of Clickimin near Lerwick on Shetland which we looked around in 2024. It can be dated to at least the early Iron Age although its actual function, like all brochs, is not clear. Farmsteads, status symbols, and fortifications all have supporters but also those who disagree. Archaeologists, eh? What are they like?

#Travel #Photography #Scotland #Shetland #Lerwick #Broch #Clickimin #Archaeology #History #IronAge

It's a grey day with a lot of distant fog smothering any distant views. We're on a grassy area dotted with some flat stones at ground level marking where walls once stood and, just behind, a round-walled structure. The building is about three metres high and dozens wide, although we can only see a small part of it here, and has a small window gap in the curved wall. The wall itself is built up from roughly squared-off stones of varying sizes, closely compacted together with small tufts of grass and moss growing in the tight cracks. It feels quiet, cool, a little damp in the air, and with a still sense of history.

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: Clickimin Broch, Lerwick, Shetland.

#lerwick #shetland #broch #archaeology #clickimin

the stone courses of a defensive broch rise from a promontory on the loch. Beyond, the settlement of Lerwick.

Climate activists made a big noise at Clickimin Loch this afternoon as they protested against development at the Rosebank oil field, west of Shetland

https://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2023/06/10/climate-activists-bang-the-drum-in-protest-of-rosebank

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #climate #ClimateStrike #Clickimin #Shetland #Scotland

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