Welcome to Dun Carloway Broch! It’s one of the best preserved of all broch towers in Scotland and it may also have been one of the last to be built, perhaps sometime in the 1st century BC. Although their walls would have deterred most intruders, brochs were essentially defensible farmhouses rather than occasional refuges from pirates, raiders, or even neighbours. Structures like Dun Carloway could house an extended family and some of their livestock over the winter. Dwellings in the Hebrides ten