Clickimin Broch and Settlement, Lerwick, Shetland Isles, Scotland. United Kingdom. SCO 7264
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5613 x 3736 px | 47.5 x 31.6 cm | 18.7 x 12.5 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
16 June 2011Location:
Clikimin Broch, Lerwick, Shetland Isles. Scotland. United Kingdom.More information:
Clickimin demonstrates good example of a broch tower with associated secondary buildings of Iron Age date. Clickimin broch is a large, coastal broch in Lerwick, Shetland. On the inland side of the passage to the broch there is one of the very rare "footprint stones" (otherwise called "devil's footprint") indicating where the safe passage-way starts (a similar footprint stone is for example found near the old ford to Eilean Donan castle, which is now linked by a modern bridge). The entrance to the broch itself is blocked by a separate fort. The site is maintained by Historic Scotland. Located on a small islet in the Loch of Clickimin, a half-mile (1 km) west southwest of Lerwick on the Shetland Mainland is the well-preserved and easily accessible Clickimin Broch. Now connected to the southern shore of the loch, the 20m (32-foot) diameter broch was a Pictish fortification occupied from c.700 BC to the 5th or 6th centuries AD and some parts still stand 5m (16 feet) in height. Originally a Bronze-Age farmstead, the site developed into an Iron-Age ring fort then a broch and later into a wheel-house settlement. The site was first uncovered in the 1850s and professionally excavated a hundred years later.