Scotland. Day 4, 2nd July.
Driving north from Brora, my next stop was Ousdale Broch. It is just as well I had its location defined on my car GPS because it is some way off the road and I would not have been able to find it otherwise.
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Typical of brochs, you needed to stoop and become vulnerable to enter. There is also a guard cell off to the right in the passageway. Some brochs had a stone that defenders could slide into place for a doorway. I don’t know whether this was the case here.
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The broch is 1.5 metres high externally and 3 metres high internally while it had 8-foot thick walls (from other accounts; I didn’t measure this myself). Of course the walls are likely to have been higher originally.
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The broch is set into the landscape above Ousdale burn with a commanding view of visitors from the sea, yet probably hardly visible from there.
I believe Robert Frost explains it best …
“…Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference…”
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Yes, indeed.
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