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noun
A type of Iron Age stone tower with hollow double-layered walls found on Orkney, Shetland, in the Hebrides and parts of the Scottish mainland.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: archaeology, history, human-sciences, sciences
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Synonyms: Pictish tower
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Scots broch, from Old Norse borg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz. Doublet of borough and burgh.
