Dun Telve Iron Age Broch Glenelg Scotland
Pictures taken at Dun Telve Iron Age Broch, Glenelg, Scotland in August. The Broch is in great condition considering its age, about the best on the mainland of Scotland, considering that its around 2000 years. Its in quite a remote location, but it is so worth the drive, noting that the views are excellent on the way too !
Brochs near Glenelg
Aerial views of Iron age Brochs near Glenelg in North West Scotland.
Dun Troddan Iron Age Broch Highlands Of Scotland
Tour Scotland travel video of of Dun Troddan Iron Age Broch on ancestry visit to the Scottish Highlands. Dun Troddan stands on a level rock platform north of the Abhainn a’Ghlaine Bhig, in the lower reaches of Gleann Beag. It lies just north of the minor road leading south from Glenelg. It can be accessed via a steep path. A broch is an Iron Age drystone hollow walled structure of a type found only in Scotland.
Glenelg Broch 2
4000 year old Broch, Glenelg, Scottish Highlands
Iron age brochs Of Scotland
Iron age Brochs , stone Towers built during the Iron Age period in Scotland, an audio visual presentation showing aerial views of the broch remains in Scotland, including the best preserved The Broch of Mousa.
Shiel Bridge to Glenelg
One of the views on the road from Shiel Bridge to Glenelg, Scotland.
Edin's Hall Broch
Set in the Whitadder Valley of the Scottish Borders, this remarkable Broch is a rare south Scotland example. sitting in a prehistoric fort, it most likely protects copper mining in the first centuries AD
Glenelg Days Glenelg Nights
Great scenery, great music, great craic. No wonder it's my favourite place, my home from home.
The Lodge, Glenelg.mov
Across the road from The Lodge in Glenelg, you get a stunning view over Glenelg Bay to Kylerhea village on the Isle of Skye and down the Sound of Sleat. Not every day is sunny like this on the West Coast of Scotland but the ones that are make up for the bad ones!
The Broch Of Mousa Still Stands Today - Britain's Secret Homes
The 2000 year old Broch of Mousa still stands today.
Coldoch Broch
Iron age broch, near Blairdrummond, Perthshire. Due to the recent good work of Stirling Archaeology volunteers, the previously very overgrown broch is now exposed and more detail can be seen.
One of the few lowland brochs.
Brochs are among Scotland's most impressive prehistoric buildings, the large majority of them dating from around 100 BC to 100 AD, the time of the Roman invasion of Britain. There are over 500 known sites of these iron age structures in Scotland, but it is only to the north and west, where stone was more readily available than timber, that brochs are to be found in any numbers.
Huge windowless towers, ingeniously engineered, they represent the pinnacle of dry-stone wall building, and remain one of the finest construction achievements of Iron Age Europe. Brochs were almost certainly originally roofed and would have had several timber floors known as galleries.
Across the loch from Eilean Donan Castle - a visit to Caisteal Grugaig (Castle of the Witch)
Caisteal Grugaig (The Witch's Castle), also known as Totaig Broch, stands on a rocky knoll overlooking Eilean Donan Castle at the head of Loch Alsh, Loch Duich and Loch Long in the Scottish Highlands. It is an example of an iron age broch tower, structures unique to Scotland which date from the last century BC to first century AD. Remains of these mysterious dry-stane buildings can be found from the Borders to the Shetland Isles. Caisteal Grugaig is one of my personal favourites, a place of incredible atmosphere, rugged beauty and sublime views. The original building stood three, possibly four stories high and was undoubtably a dwelling place of great status in its day. Much of the original stone work has been removed for other buiding purposes over the centuries, including the original construction of nearby Eilean Donan Castle in the 13th Century. The name of the hill on which the broch stands is 'Watchplace of the Tower' or in Gaelic 'Faire an Duine' which, legend has it, was the domicile of the witch Grugaig. The story goes she bore two sons, Telve and Trodden, whose names are given to the perhaps more famous brochs Dun Telve and Dun Trodden over the hill in Glen Beag, Glenelg. The walk to the broch begins at the old white ferry house at Totaig. Please note cars should be parked in the car park in nearby Letterfearn. The track can be muddy but is fairy straightforward and easy. It is also possible to follow the trail a few hundred yards beyond the broch, past a decent Forestry Commission information board, to the top of a rise where spectacular views can be had of the mountains of Skye and Lochalsh. A treck to the top of 'Faire an Duine' is also possible, offering a superb overhead view of the broch. However, this is slighly more arduous and potentially dangerous so care should be taken.
Special thanks to the Forestry Commission for permission to use footage from a 3D laser scan of the broch undertaken on their behalf by AOC Archaeology Group.
Music is 'Cylinder Nine' by Chris Zabriskie, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (
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Timelapse of Dun Carloway (1080p)
Dun Carloway is a remarkably well preserved broch in a stunning location overlooking Loch Roag on the west coast of Lewis. -
A frame was taken every 20 seconds using the Ricoh GX100's intervalometer, for a period of 186 minutes when the battery ran out, and just before a coach tour of Germans turned up.
West Highlands of Scotland from Kyleakin to Sandaig.
This video was compiled over three visits to the Western Highands of Scotland.
December / January 2016 / 2017
June 2017
September / August 2017 and includes:
Clachan Durch.
Caisteal Maol in Kyleakin.
Eilean Donan Castle.
Bernera Barracks at Glenelg
Waterfall at Eilanreach
Iron Age Broch at Eilanreach, Dun Troddan
Glenelg to Kylerhea ferry
Sandaig Islands
Waterfall at Camusfeàrna
The video was shot in 4k, if you would like any high quality prints taken from the film please let me know.
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Lord of the Land by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (
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Scotland Roadtrip 2: Glenelg
The morning after our first night of camping in the Highlands. We got lost trying to get there the night before, and ended up having to drive over a single-track, curvy, high mountain road in a dense fog, in the dark. SCARY. But we made it!
Ronan's Trip to Sandaig Christine Martin
A journey by boat through the fast running waters at Kylerhea on the Isle of Skye to Sandaig the home of Gavin Maxwell and then on to Arnisdale near Glenelg.
The Broch Scotland from the air
pictures of Fraserburgh from the air
The Best Preserved Prehistoric Home In Europe - Britain's Secret Homes
The Broch of Mousa is very well-preserved.
Broch of Mousa - Britain's Secret Homes
The Broch on the island of Mousa is 2000 years old.
Trade To And From The Broch Of Mousa - Britain's Secret Homes
The slave trade in Northern Europe.