Nybster
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Nybster is a scattered rural and crofting township, situated in Caithness
and is in the Scottish
council area of Highland
It is the location of the Nybster Broch. A broch
is an Iron Age building that is unique to Scotland. This one was probably built between about 200 BC and 200 AD and re-used during the Pictish
period (AD 300 - 800). Nybster Broch has a website which is charting recent (2011) excavations.
The Caithness Broch Centre nearby provides an opportunity to learn more about the communities that lived in the brochs, those who excavated them and the communities who are still involved with them today.
The hamlet of Auckengill
is situated 0.5 mile south of Nybster, along the A9 road.
Caithness
Caithness is a registration county, lieutenancy area and historic local government area of Scotland. The name was used also for the earldom of Caithness and the Caithness constituency of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . Boundaries are not identical in all contexts, but the Caithness area is...
and is in the Scottish
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
council area of Highland
It is the location of the Nybster Broch. A broch
Broch
A broch is an Iron Age drystone hollow-walled structure of a type found only in Scotland. Brochs include some of the most sophisticated examples of drystone architecture ever created, and belong to the classification "complex Atlantic Roundhouse" devised by Scottish archaeologists in the 1980s....
is an Iron Age building that is unique to Scotland. This one was probably built between about 200 BC and 200 AD and re-used during the Pictish
Picts
The Picts were a group of Late Iron Age and Early Mediaeval people living in what is now eastern and northern Scotland. There is an association with the distribution of brochs, place names beginning 'Pit-', for instance Pitlochry, and Pictish stones. They are recorded from before the Roman conquest...
period (AD 300 - 800). Nybster Broch has a website which is charting recent (2011) excavations.
The Caithness Broch Centre nearby provides an opportunity to learn more about the communities that lived in the brochs, those who excavated them and the communities who are still involved with them today.
The hamlet of Auckengill
Auckengill
Auckengill is a settlement, 6 miles south of John O' Groats, on the east coast of Caithness Scotland, within the Scottish council area of Highland.Auckengill is situated 0.5 mile north of Nybster....
is situated 0.5 mile south of Nybster, along the A9 road.