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	Dun Carloway Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dun Carloway, or Dun Charlabhaigh, is a remarkably well preserved broch in a stunning location overlooking Loch Roag on the west coast of Lewis.
		Dun Carloway featured prominently in reports on Western Isles brochs in the latter part of the 1800s, and as a result it was one of the very first ancient monuments in Scotland to be taken into state care.
		Today Dun Carloway is approached from the car park past the superb Doune Broch Centre, built largely underground, and containing an exhibition giving a sense of what life in the broch might well have been like.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /lewis/duncarloway (679 words)

	Standing stones and ancient monuments - The Internet Guide to Scotland
		Dun Bharpa is a large well-preserved Neolithic chambered burial cairn 2.5 km south of the road between Craigston and Grean (map grid reference NF 671019).
		Dun Bhulan (on a spur of land overlooking the beach) is an Iron Age broch and settlement (map grid reference NF 714297).
		Dun Mara is an Iron Age fort on a promontory 1.5 miles north-west of Cros (map reference NB 495631).
	www.scotland-inverness.co.uk /stones.htm (3185 words)

	Corvus '94 - Dun Carloway Broch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dun Carloway stands on a hillside, overlooking the ruins of flhouses that were probably built using stone robbed from it.
		Dun Carloway (Dùn Chárlabhaigh) is an Iron Age broch thought to have been built around 2000 years ago.
		Dun Carloway is about 47 feet across and the walls that remain standing are about 6m high.
	members.aol.com /corvus1994/dcb.htm (297 words)

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		Dun Carloway is the archetypal broch tower of popular perception: a massive, ragged ruin, isolated in the bleak, rocky peatlands of west Lewis.
		The convenient collapse of one side of Dun Carloway exposes the inner structure and architectural complexity of the building and demonstrates some of the key attributes of this architectural tradition.
		Although Dun Carloway is the best surviving Western Isles broeh tower, there are a number of others which would, in their day, have been at least as impressive.
	members.lycos.co.uk /hebrides/atlantic_roundhouses.htm (7768 words)

	Prehistoric.org.uk - Dun Telve & Dun Troddan (Glenelg) - Brochs
		Dun Telve and Dun Troddan are situated within sight of each other not far from the coast of the mainland near Skye.
		Dun Telve and Dun Troddan are easy to find, and though not in a remarkable state of repair it is possible to get some idea as to the original structure.
		Dun Telve is in a better state of repair out of the two, the entrance is intact and you can explore various rooms built into the cavity walls, even climb some of the steps that wound up between the inner and outer wall..
	www.prehistoric.org.uk /highland/glenelg.html (634 words)

	Isle of Lewis
		Many Morrison descendents seeking Dun Eistein on their own may suppose it to be the rocky, windswept point at the very tip of Lewis, where a lighthouse is now.
		Dun Eistein is located several miles east of the lighthouse, and is inaccessible by public road.
		The depth and ruggedness of the chasm spanned by the bridge cannot be appreciated until one is at the precipice on the bridge.
	www.enginova.com /Lewis.htm (1262 words)

	The brochs of the Hebrides
		There are many such island duns in the numerous lochs of the Hebrides and Dr Dixon, who is in charge of the diving unit of the Edinburgh department and is a director of the Scottish Trust for Underwater Archaeology, has spent a number of seasons investigating suitable islands to check for the existence of duns.
		The causeway approached the dun from the west shore, but the entrance was on the east, so there must have been a catwalk around the base of the dun.
		Brochs, duns and wheelhouses are plainly related variants on the Atlantic roundhouse theme, but a good deal more thought will be necessary before the new insights sparked off by the current spate of field research in the Western Isles can be fully evaluated.
	www.cix.co.uk /~archaeology/timeline/roman/brochs/valtos.htm (1436 words)

	Visit Carloway Broch with Wild in Scotland
		They are an entirely dry stone construction with no mortar or cement used in their construction but even now Dun Carloway would require a skilled climber to scale its smooth outer wall - that’s without the inhabitants pelting you with anything that came to hand from the top of the walls many metres above.
		Dun Carloway gives one of the best impressions of how brochs would have appeared a couple of thousand years ago.
		Dun Carloway was thought to have been still fairly intact until the 15/1600’s when tales tell of Clans using the broch as a hiding place when one clan had stolen hairy coos from another.
	www.wild-in-scotland.com /carlowaybroch.php (298 words)

	The Mysterious Sites of the Western Isles
		This ruined dun is said to have been the home of a giant called Cuithach, who in the tradition of most giants, laid waste to the surrounding area by stealing cattle and killing local people.
		The dun and Cuitahach's grave are both close to the area where the Isle of Lewis Chess Set was found in the 19th Century.
		Described as having the top half of a young child and the lower part of a salmon without scales, she was buried in a small specially made coffin and shawl somewhere above the highest tide mark.
	www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk /scotland/outerhebrides/ouh5.html (236 words)

	Am Baile - Dun Carloway, Lewis
		Dun Carloway (Dùn Chàrlabhaigh), on the island of Lewis, is one of the best preserved brochs.
		Dun Carloway featured prominently in reports on Western Isles brochs in the late 19th century and became one of the first ancient monuments in Scotland to be taken into state care.
		This plate is taken from 'On the Duns of the Outer Hebrides' by F.W.L.Thomas and published in 'Archaeologia Scotica or Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland', vol V (1890)
	www.ambaile.org.uk /en/item/item_illustration.jsp?item_id=10979 (365 words)

	Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture - Historic Places - Towers of stone – the brochs of Scotland
		Dun Carloway, on the Isle of Lewis, commands a sweeping view of the surrounding land and sea.
		A surprising number of brochs survive to a considerable height: Dun Carloway on the Isle of Lewis; Dun Telve and Dun Troddan in Glenelg, north-west Highlands; Gurness and Midhowe in Orkney, but the apogee has to be Mousa in Shetland, still standing to almost its full height of more than 13 metres.
		Dun Carloway in Lewis stands proud upon a rocky outcrop in a commanding, yet defensive position.
	heritage.scotsman.com /places.cfm?id=282072006 (1271 words)

	Landscapes of conflict and power: Landscapes of conflict and power: Histrories: Military metaphors: borchs 1
		Brochs, such as this example at Dun Carloway, have often been interpreted in terms of defence and conflict and many brochs were used in later conflict - Dun Carloway in the sixteenth century for example.
		The high looming towers, with no windows and a narrow doorway, sometimes with a guard cell, seem to be well suited for defensive purposes.
		As such brochs appear to be one of the best symbols for the warrior Celts - a fortified house.
	www.arcl.ed.ac.uk /aos1nu/archscot1/4_landscapes_of_conflict_and_power/histories_of_interpretation/military_metaphors/brochs/brochs_1.htm (118 words)

	The brochs of the Hebrides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		There are many such island duns in the numerous lochs of the Hebrides and Dr Dixon, who is in charge of the diving unit of the Edinburgh department and is a director of the Scottish Trust for Underwater Archaeology, has spent a number of seasons investigating suitable islands to check for the existence of duns.
		The causeway approached the dun from the west shore, but the entrance was on the east, so there must have been a catwalk around the base of the dun.
		Brochs, duns and wheelhouses are plainly related variants on the Atlantic roundhouse theme, but a good deal more thought will be necessary before the new insights sparked off by the current spate of field research in the Western Isles can be fully evaluated.
	www.archaeology.co.uk /ca/timeline/roman/brochs/valtos.htm (1436 words)

	The Mysterious Sites of the Western Isles
		They date from the late Iron Age period, and are likely to have housed the chief of small tribes.
		Dun Carloway consists of two concentric circular stone walls, which once held lookout posts reached by an inner stairway.
		The entrance is to the Northwest and leads to a small 'guard cell', once inside the central courtyard there are four openings to galleries within the walls.
	www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk /scotland/outerhebrides/ouh3.html (242 words)

	Culture Hebrides - Island holidays in the Gaelic Heartland of Scotland
		Dun Carloway: this Iron Age broch is the best preserved in the Hebrides and was occupied right up until the 1870s.
		The Norse Mill, Shawbost: this mill and kiln is in a lovely spot near Shawbost, and shows how barley grain used to be processed in to meal.
		Dun Eisdean Castle: an important medieval archaeological site on a sea stack north of Port of Ness, this was the clan centre for the Morrisons of Ness.
	www.culturehebrides.com /archaeology/north (283 words)

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		Dun Beag, late first millennium BC, Iron Age broch showing evidence of re-use in the early medieval period; excavated 1914-20.
		Skye's answer to Dun Carloway, with gallery, cell and stairway surviving between inner and outer battered drystone walls.
		Dun Beag is a broch near Struan and is situated at the N end of a small rocky eminence about 200ft above sea level.
	www.rcahms.gov.uk:7777 /pls/portal/newcanmore.newcandig_details_gis?inumlink=11062 (723 words)

	Broch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On average, the walls only survive to a few metres; the best examples (Carloway, Telve, Troddan, Mousa and Dornaigil) are up to 13m tall, however it is not clear whether all brochs originally stood this high.
		The evidence for this assertion is still fairly scanty, though excavations at Dun Bharabhat, Lewis, have supported this interpretation.
		The main difficulty with this interpretation continues to be the potential source of structural timber, though bog and driftwood may have been plentiful sources.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Broch (1047 words)

	Prehistoric.org.uk - Dun Carloway - Broch
		You should find a brown sign pointing off to the right for Callanish and Dun Carloway.
		Dun Carloway was the second site that I wanted to see on Lewis after the Callanish monuments.
		Both here and at Callanish the buildings are unobtrusive, the sites can still be visited without having to pay and you don't even have to enter the visitor centre if you don't want to.
	www.prehistoric.org.uk /lewis/dun_carloway.html (343 words)

	Brochs
		Brochs are built with two concentric walls of stone, with a stairway or gallery within the walls to the upper floors.
		The Broch at Carloway is one of the best preserved in the Hebrides and dates back over 2000 years.
		At the Broch near Carloway the Visitor Centre is open in summer.
	www.isle-of-lewis.com /history/brochs.htm (123 words)

	Dun Carloway Broch Lewis Scotland The Broch is an Iron...
		Dun Carloway Broch Lewis Scotland The Broch is an Iron...
		Dun Carloway Broch, Lewis, Scotland The "Broch" is an Iron Age Iron Age fortification type unique to Scotland Scotland.
		Some good examples of brochs exist at Mousa Mousa on Shetland Shetland (the walls here are fully intact), in Glenelg Glenelg (a galleried dun can also be seen here) and at Dun Carloway Dun Carloway on Harris Harris.
	www.biodatabase.de /broch (399 words)

	Dun Ardtreck
		The enclosed area of the dun measures 10m x 13m.
		The first occupation of the dun ended with its burning.
		During later re-occupation a house was built in its interior.
	www.scran.ac.uk /stones/sites/ardtreck.htm (108 words)

	Hotels near Dun Carloway Broch
		Hotels near Dun Carloway Broch - 4 hotels from £30 per room per night.
		Welcome to the Thorlee, situated on the harbour front in the town of Stornoway.
		One of the best examples can be seen at Dun Carloway, where the tower still stands about 30ft high....
	www.activereservations.com /hotel/attr/en/1345 (187 words)

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		A broch, which, though broken and incomplete, is one of the best preserved in the Western Isles, part of the old walling on the east still attaining a height of about 30'.
		Dun Carloway, a broch, as described and planned.
		'Excavations at Dun Carloway broch, Isle of Lewis',
	www.rcahms.gov.uk:7777 /pls/portal/newcanmore.details_gis?inumlink=4121 (576 words)

	Dun Carloway (Broch) \| The Modern Antiquarian \| Dun Carloway (Broch)
		Dun Carloway (Broch) on The Modern Antiquarian, the UK and Ireland's most popular megalithic community website.
		Dun Carloway is the most impressive broch in the Western isles and next to Mousa Broch in Shetland probably the most impressive in Britain.
		Dun Carloway dates from the 1st century BC and is situated on top of a hillock overlooking its manor.
	www.themodernantiquarian.com /site/791 (522 words)

	Lewis at AllExperts
		Attractions on the island include the Callanish standing stones, the Clach an Truiseil monolith, the thirteenth century Teampull Mholuaidh church, the Butt of Lewis cliffs and lighthouse and the broch at Dun Carloway.
		The district of Carloway (after the village of that name) which hitherto had fallen partly within the parishes of Lochs and Uig, became a separate civil registration district in 1859.
		From the ancient site of Callanish with its standing stones to the Dun Carloway Broch, from the Iron Age houses near Bostadh (Great Bernera) to the Black House village at Garenin (Na Gearannan), near Carloway, from St.
	en.allexperts.com /e/l/le/lewis.htm (946 words)

	Holiday Tours of Lewis and Stornoway in the Highlands of Scotland
		We have up to an hour-and-a-half at Callanish before continuing north to the Great Broch of Carloway.
		Brochs are circular defensive towers from the Iron Age, and are found only in Scotland, especially in the north.
		Dun Carloway is one of the best preserved.
	www.puffinexpress.co.uk /lewis.htm (835 words)

	Inhabitation: Living with others: Family: Living with Animals
		This photograph shows a Hebridean Blackhouse – a characteristic house type of this period- in front of the broch at Dun Carloway.
		Animals lived in the downslope end of the house, and sometimes entered by the same door as the people.
		Click here for a pop-up of a reconstruction of Dun Carloway itself, showing animals and people living together, again entering by the same door.
	www.arcl.ed.ac.uk /aos1nu/archscot1/2_landscapes_of_settlement_inhabiting_domestic_architecture/inhabitation/living_with_others/family_&_demography/family/living_with_animals.htm (147 words)

	postkuip : Lewis & Harris - Dun Carloway en noodweer (16 augustus 2006).
		Lewis & Harris - Dun Carloway en noodweer (16 augustus 2006).
		Maar eerst slaan we af bij het bord naar Carloway (Charlabhaigh) om daar de pictenburcht te gaan bekijken.
		Deze burcht uit de laatste eeuw voor de jaartelling staat op een heuvel en domineert het gebied: zowel het land als de zee als de fjord.
	www.aafkepostma.nl /weblog/?p=767 (504 words)

	Jo's Big Adventure Part 4-A-1
		I decided it would be a good day for a walk, and headed out to Carloway broch, because there was an easy walk listed there that sounded like fun.
		I finally decided to head back over the fence and across the fields towards Dun Carloway, where I had parked.
		I couldn't see Dun Carloway from this point, but I had seen it often enough along the walk to have a very good idea of where it was.
	www.triharpskel.com /scotland-05/part4a1.html (1207 words)

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