Clickimin broch is a big, seaside broch near Lerwick, Shetland. Situated across the lake is the Clickimin Leisure Centre. Doune Carloway Broch, Lewis, Scotland The Broch is an Iron Age round tower fortification type unique to Scotland. ... Location within the British Isles The Market Cross,Central Lerwick Lerwick is the only town and main port of the Shetland Islands, found more than 160km (100 miles) off the north coast of Scotland. ... See Shetland (disambiguation) for other meanings. ...
The distribution of brochs is centred on north west Scotland although isolated examples occur in the borders and near Stirling.
Early in the use of a broch (from the middle of the 1st millennium BC until the early 3rd century AD) they would be used purely as defensive structures, places of refuge for communities and their livestock.
Brochs were always placed in locations which were easily defended, close to arable land and a source of water (many have deep wells or natural springs rising within their central space).
Mousa Broch may be the most well preserved on Shetland, but the Broch of Clickimin is certainly the most easily accessible.
The broch was originally up to 12-15m high and came with the usual rooms, enclosures and stairs within its thick, dry stone walls.
It is thought that it was during this period that one of Clickimin's oddest features was added: a slab of stone with two footprints carved into it on the causeway leading to the broch.
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