image for illustration: The Iron Age Mousa Broch by Iain Lees, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Planning permission has been granted for the first broch in 2000 years to be constructed in the Highlands, reports The National.
The National writes:
The Highland Council has approved plans submitted by the Caithness Broch Project (CBP) to construct a replica Iron Age structure off the A9… The broch will be built near the boundary of the Flow Country Unesco world heritage site…. Historic Environment Scotland states that the ‘best-preserved broch in Scotland’ was built in Shetland around 300BC…
… CBP noted that Caithness has ‘a higher concentration of broch sites than any other area in Scotland and we should use this fact to tell our distinctive story…. It would provide employment, from the construction phase and long after the building has been completed.’
