Why You'd be Crazy Not to visit this Iron Age Broch

Mousa Broch is a simply astounding remnant of Iron Age Shetland islands and the best surviving brochs of Scotland. Scottish history tour guide, Bruce Fummey, takes you on a trip sponsored by @Promote Shetland to the best preserved broch in Scotland, located on the island of Mousa in Shetland

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Scotland History Tours is here for people who want to learn about Scottish history and get ideas for Scottish history tours. I try to make videos which tell you tales from Scotland's past and give you information about key dates in Scottish history and historical places to visit in Scotland. Not all videos are tales from Scotland's history, some of them are about men from Scotland's past or women from Scotland's past. Basically the people who made Scotland. From April 2020 onward I've tried to give ideas for historic days out in Scotland. Essentially these are days out in Scotland for adults who are interested in historical places to visit in Scotland.

As a Scottish history tour guide people ask: Help me plan a Scottish holiday, or help me plan a Scottish vacation if your from the US. So I've tried to give a bit of history, but some places of interest in Scotland as well.

[Concreteowl]

I think they were winter shelters. Like great halls. People would have their own house until harvest but share a dwelling in winter to conserve heat and save fuel. The two layers would trap heat. The bottom floor would keep animals safe. When the back of winter was broken people would return to their homes and prepare to plant spring crops. Does that make sense?

[jacquiedwards]

As an Australian of partly Scottish descent, and someone with a deep love of history, this channel is wonderful at bringing the ordinary people of history alive...
This broch is absolutely amazing.. and simply oozing with history.. imagine the stories it held, the things those walls have seen and heard 😯❤. nothing less that stunning

[garysmith]

Got stoned in the klickimin broch in lerwick with my greatest friend sadly gone now staring at stars and drifting through time an experience I'll never forget.

[ClannCholmain]

I’ve never been to Scotland, thanks to the pandemic, but this will be the reason why now.

Greetings from the west of Ireland 🇮🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[helenswan]

That stonework is truly impressive. One possibility not considered: maybe they just wanted somewhere to shelter from bad weather. A broch would have been champion for that.

[Necrovamp]

As If Scotlands best tour guide is a film star! Well done Mr Fummey.

[drrd]

That's cool!
I am from Scotland and I traveled around Scotland when my dad was in the pipe band, I saw there structures and honestly just thought it was a old fashioned silo!
We don't get taught enough about our history, thank you for everything you do.

[raebertgrayson]

I'm an American with deep family ties to Great Britain and Scandinavia. I've recently discovered my family is related to some rather colorful characters in history, some of whom I'm ashamed of, others whom I admire. This broch...seeing it stirred something within me; it's always that way when I see pictures of my family's ancestral lands, especially Scotland. Maybe, ages ago, some of mine ancestors lived and worked in such a place, and those memories were passed forward through them, to me. Dunno why, but I'm mighty grateful yeh made this video, Bruce. Please keep up the good work!

[slydermartin]

Being a Builder Scotland amazes me. From Edinburgh Castle....who laid those first stones at the edge of certain death???... to the Mousa did they build it??? Genius!
Thank you for another amazing video.

[fearthekilt]

Well, it's settled then. There's no way I can see and do all of the wonderful sites and events in the land of my ancestors in a wee vacation. I'll just have to move there 😁. Seriously, thanks again Bruce for the story, well told. I really think you need your own prime time network show. Good morning from America!

[CandC_Farms]

Fascinating. Here in the U.S. we think 300 years in old. I truly must come over for a vacation and see some of these ancient sites. Thank you for the videos.

[petercresswell]

Yes we visited Shetland twenty years ago this week How do I remember? Well some blokes may take their new brides to the Caribbean islands for a honeymoon, I took mine to Shetland lol
We visited the Broch, and the Norse settlement at the south of the main isle, alongside a few other iron age bits and pieces.
We had a wonderful week up there and would recommend it without hesitation.
Great video as ever, not too many English jokes either 🤣🤣🤣 We are on the borders and my gran was a fierce Sutherland Gunn, so I've had my fair share of mockery, it's worth it for an ice cream sat by the rive in Langholm
Look forward to the next video, hopefully a few more Shetland stories too
Cheers

[lisamckay]

1. I'm trying not to regret excluding Shetland from my upcoming trip to Scotland. You are not making that easy with videos like this one. 😁
2. I went to the bookstore today and picked up "Knots and Crosses, " by Rankin. I'm pretty sure I'm going to be hooked on this series now.
3. I love these videos. Thank you for making them.

[fuzielectron]

Excellent.

Love the Brochs. It's amazing to walk in and touch those places where our ancestors lived their lives.

I was very disappointed at Skara Brae all I could think off was "I want to walk in the door"

When visiting Skara Brae, I had Greek friends with me, a rich historical past.. That walk down the concrete footpath with date inscriptions to the site was blowing their minds.

[peterkelly]

I look at structures like Broch's and marvel at the labour that went into the construction

[knightforlorn]

Wow. This might be one of the coolest things I've ever seen, architecturally speaking. I loved this video. thank you for sharing!

[MustangL]

To answer one of your early questions, the only Broch of which I was aware was Broch Turoch or Lally Broch. Gabalon's heuristic writing does draw one in.
When I was a lad in Broadstairs, there was a Roman (may be Norman) tower within walking distance of our home. My father took photographs of it. From the outside it looks very similar to this broch.
I also noticed brochs in northwest Ireland and on the coast of County Clare. I doubt I'll ever be able to travel back, but I'm intrigued nonetheless.
Thanks for the fascinating tuition.

[wardarcade]

WOAH! That's amazing that not only has this brough been preserved so WELL but that they were able to build such a tall structure in the first place(complete with stairways between the walls) by piling rocks VERY carefully and no mortar! I wonder if Shetland may have had more trees when that brough was first built or did they have to import them from elsewhere to build the now-vanished wooden inner floors? And did those stairways have even rope railings to hold onto or did folks just grab onto rocks on the walls (while presumably carrying lit wooden torches for light) ? And how gloomy inside was it with virtually no windows? Was the one outer door built deliberately short to discourage visitors or was the era's average adult height short enough for most contemporaries to comfortably walk through without ducking? So MANY questions (and you brought up some intriguing ones yourself) but thanks VERY much for bringing us along on your tour of it!

[michaelgroob]

I learned of these a couple of years ago and I was gobsmacked at their construction. This rates at one of the penultimate examples of iron age technology! Thank you so much for this video!

[robwalker]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, you should be sponsored by the Scottish Tourist Board mate, brilliant vid, again.