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Broch of Mousa

a Pleiades place resource

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The Broch of Mousa is a drystone broch in Scotland, dating ca. 400-200 BC.

500 km

Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/6525101

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
59.9952663829, -1.18202775156

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Broch of Mousa (800 BC - AD 100) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

None

Broch of Mousa makes connections with:

Broch of Mousa connection Mousa (unspecified date range)

Broch of Mousa receives connections from:

None

Place type:
fort, tower (deprecated)

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Related:

Wikidata Broch of Mousa (Q923376)

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Broch of Mousa: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/6525101> [accessed: 05 April 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/6525101 |title=Places: 6525101 (Broch of Mousa) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=April 5, 2025 5:23 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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