But to such chambered mounds as the Broch of the Boyne, another traditionary egress, whether for the dwellers or for the smoke, seems more applicable.
One of them was broken into a good many years ago, and it is now known to antiquaries as the "Broch of Coldoch" (from the estate on which it is situated).
Professor Olaf Broch also considers my assumption probable, and has submitted the question of the etymology of the Russian "morsh" to Professor Berneker, who may doubtless be regarded as the first authority in questions of this kind.
Broch saw it on the Súkhona, a tributary of the Dvina.
Professor Olaf Broch has described to me the peculiar river-boat that is used far and wide in North Russia, and that is evidently a very old type of boat.
By heating the wood the sides are given the desired shape, and to the dug-out foundation is fastened a board on each side; Broch did not remember whether it was sewed or nailed on.
Each broch was the abode of several families, huddled together beneath its roof of skins.
It occurs within the pentacle symbol engraved on a pebble from the Brochof Burrian, Orkney.
Both the broch and the nuraghe have low doorways which "would at once put an enemy at a disadvantage in attempting to enter".
The inference is that the original seat of the broch builders must have been in the far north, and that their influence proceeded southwards.
In some few there were wells, but water-supply, save when the broch was in a loch, must have been a difficulty in most cases during a prolonged siege.
For defence the broch was as nearly as possible perfect against any engines or weapons then available for attacking it; and we may note that it existed in Scotland and mainly in the north and west of it, and nowhere else in the world.
At the breakfast-table Yaspard said to his uncle, "The Yarl of Broch asked me to come to Burra Isle to-day, if you have no objections.
That was a common dodge long ago," quoth Yaspard; and Tom added, "We got a good illustration of that sort of thing in the old Broch of Burra Isle.
You and your Viking can return and finish up your voyage of discovery another time," quoth Garth; "but at present you must submit to being taken to Brochin a commonplace manner.
I can leave it at Broch anyway," he said to Signy as he stowed the bag aboard.
Broch shows, has been 'due principally to causes which have operated in the rest of Europe.
Broch drew up his Report for the Universal Exhibition at Paris, the diffusion of property in Norway had left only about 25 per cent.
In a note to Ivanhoe, and in his Northern tour of 1814, Scott describes a stone causeway to a broch on an artificial island in Loch Cleik-him-in, near Lerwick.
We can be sure that the broch folk were at some time in touch of Roman goods, brought by traffickers perhaps, but how can we be sure that there were no brochs before the arrival of the Romans?
Moreover, the appearance of an unique and previously unheard-of set of inscribed stones, in a site of the usual broch and crannog period, is not invariably ascribed to forgery, even by the most orthodox archaeologists.
A superstition which has certainly endured to the nineteenth century may obviously have existed among the Picts, or whoever they were, of the crannog and broch period on Clyde.
Now this loch, says Scott, was, at the time when the broch was inhabited, open to the flow of tide water.
As people certainly did live on these structures of Langbank and Dunbuie during the broch and crannog age (centuries 5-12) it really matters not to our purpose why they did so, or how they did so.
In Wester broch "the most remarkable things found" were three egg-shaped quartzite pearls "having their surface painted with spots in a blackish or blackish-brown pigment.
The great thickness of the wall is exceeded, however, by the Brochat Torwoodlee, Selkirkshire, by 6 inches.
The Broch of Mousa is generally believed to be the most perfect example extant; it is in Shetland, and consists of a wall 15 feet thick enclosing a court 20 feet in diameter.
Probably the many hut circles which surround this Brochare of later date and were formed from its ruins.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "broch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
