BuildingMousa Broch

Tait describes Mousa Broch as a "famous and very well-preserved eponymous broch" that was "already at least 1,000 years old in Viking times". He calls it an "impressive, yet stark structure" which is "built from local sandstone to a very high standard, which no doubt has ensured its survival". Furthermore, Tait describes Mousa as a "very good place [more]

To Hamish Haswell-Smith, this Broch is the "world's finest, best preserved", as well as "the most complete". It can be seen "clearly" from the Mainland as it stands "some 13 metres tall", despite having "lost its upper courses". To him this is a "very fine example" of the "craft" of the Iron Age builders, with its walls "gracefully curved inwards [more]