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The Caithness Broch
The Caithness Broch

Here is the model of the Iron Age broch I was commissioned to build as part of Brick to the Past by Caithness based charity, Caithness Broch Project.

The brief was to build a minifigure scale broch, with a cutaway showing what the interior might have looked like, incorporating key architectural features, such as wall galleries, intra-mural staircases and wall voids. The landscape, which was built by James Pegrum, also had to be representative of Caithness and include a variety of Iron Age activity. Another key consideration was strength, stability and ease to set up, because the model was being sold to Caithness Broch Project and they would need to be able to handle it.

The Lego Broch was on display at the Caithness Horizons Museum in Thurso over the summer and used as the centrepiece for a wide range of outreach activities with local school children. It's been a massive hit in the media, being on the BBC and in various national newspapers and I have spoken at a number of conferences and public events about the process of researching, designing and building it.

For those unfamiliar with Scottish Iron Age archaeology, a broch is an Iron Age drystone hollow-walled structure of a type found only in Scotland and mostly in northern Scotland. Caithness, Sutherland and the Northern Isles have the densest concentrations, but there are also a great many examples in the west of Scotland and the Hebrides. For those unfamiliar with Scottish geography, Caithness is the north-easterly part of the country, and is perhaps best known for the town of John o' Groats.

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Taken on: June 22, 2017
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