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Definition of Brochs
1. broch [v] - See also: broch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brochs
Literary usage of Brochs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Prehistoric Scotland and Its Place in European Civilization: Being a General by Robert Munro (1899)
"The brochs are allied by their structural characteristics to the Celtic and not to
... The general fades of the group of relics found in the brochs agrees ..."
2. Scotland in Pagan Times: The Iron Age by Joseph Anderson (1883)
"But if we suppose that it will be necessary to deduct so large a proportion as
20 per cent, we should still have a gross total of 300 brochs in the five ..."
3. Memoirs Read Before the Anthropological Society of London by Anthropological Society of London (1866)
"The most remarkable of these, for size at least, are— THE brochs.—The "Burgs"
or "brochs" are circular towers, generally varying from fifty to seventy feet ..."
4. The Celtic and Scandinavian Antiquities of Shetland by Gilbert Goudie (1904)
"II, 1901), states that it is clear that the occupation of the brochs dates back
at least to the " Late Celtic" and Roman periods, times which may stretch as ..."
5. Golspie: Contributions to Its Folklore by Edward Williams Byron Nicholson (1897)
"... brochs, ' Pictish tower s^ or 'fiefs' houses.' On tlie map you will see
one (called Car n Liath. 'Grey Cairn') about i? mile EXE of Dunrobin (on the ..."
6. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1904)
"To take but a small objection, perhaps, three of the brochs on Sir J. ... Yet the
brochs—ingenious, concentric towers built of stone without ..."
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