Region : Shetland Island : Mainland Town or village : Lerwick Grid Reference : HU 464 408 Period : 700 BC-AD 300 Clickimin (Clickimin) BROCH, SETTLEMENT

A well preserved broch and promontory fort surrounded by an Iron Age settlement, to the south-west of Lerwick (Shetland). This site, now on the south shore of the Loch of Clickimin, was once on an island connected to the mainland by an artificial causeway. The earliest building was a late Bronze Age house, now visible to the north-west of the broch. Later Iron Age developments comprise a defensive blockhouse and the construction of the broch. In the 2nd and 3rd century AD a wheelhouse was built inside and some houses outside the broch. At the island end of the causeway, there is an early historic slab carved with two footprints. In northern and western Britain such stones are often associated with kingship rituals. In care of Historic Scotland

Other brochs, duns, forts ------------------ Brown Caterthun Carn Liath Clickimin Craig Phadrig Dun an Sticir Dun Ardtreck Dun Beag Dunbeath Dun Carloway Dun Dornaigil Dun Ringill Dun Telve Dun Troddan Edinshall Gurness Loch of Houlland Midhowe Mousa Ness of Burgi White Caterthun Other sites in Shetland ---------------------- Beorgs of Housetter (Giant's Grave) Busta Clickimin Hamnavoe (Giant's Stones) Jarlshof Loch of Houlland Mousa Ness of Burgi Punds Water Scord of Brouster Skellister (Auld Wife) Stanydale Tingwall (Murder Stone)