View source for Mousa Broch

[[Image:Shetlopedia.com - Mousa - Mousa Broch.jpg|thumb|230px|Mousa Broch.  Photo by [[User:Jaydee67|Jaydee67]]]]
[[Image:Mousa_Broch.JPG|thumb|left|230px|Mousa Broch from the air. Photo: [[User:Peter II|Peter II]]]] 
'''Mousa broch''', which is about 2000 years old, is the finest surviving example of an Iron Age broch, or tower. Over 100 brochs were built all over Shetland but later generations dismantled them for their good building stones. Mousa broch survived because of its remote location, and perhaps because it was always a remarkable sight.&lt;br&gt;Every summer the hundreds of tourists who visit the island of [[Mousa]] to see the broch, are ferried across from the Mainland on the Solan IV, the ferry operated by Tom Jamieson and his family,(see link below).

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|[[Image:Shetlopedia.com - Mousa - From Top of Moussa Broch.jpg|thumb|left|240px|Picture taken from the top of Mousa Broch.  Photo by [[User:Jaydee67|Jaydee67]]]]
|[[Image:PicMousa.jpg|thumb|left|240px|The Broch in 1987, the man in front measures 1,87m]]
|[[Image:Shetlopedia.com_Shetland_100_0612.JPG|thumb|left|240px| Iron Age Scaffolding?? Mousa Broch from the sea]]
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|[[Image:Shetlopedia.com - Mousa - Inside Mousa Broch.jpg|thumb|left|220px|Inside Mousa Broch.  Photo by [[User:Jaydee67|Jaydee67]]]]
|[[Image:Shetlopedia.com Shetland Mousa Broch 2.JPG|thumb|left|250px|[[Mousa]] Broch]]
|[[Image:Shetlopedia.com Shetland Mousa Broch 3.JPG|thumb|left|250px|[[Mousa]] Broch]]
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:&quot;Then Erland gathered men together and took up his residence in the Broch of Mousa and made great preparations for defence....when Earl Harald came to [[Hjaltland]], he besieged the Broch and cut off all communication but it was difficult to take it by assault&quot; - Quote from [[Orkneyinga saga]]

== External Links ==
*[http://www.mousaboattrips.co.uk/ Mousa Boat Trips Website]
*[http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/mousa/mousabroch/index.html Tourist Information]
*[http://www.shetland-heritage.co.uk/brochures/area_pages/south_mainland/mousa_broch.htm Shetland Heritage - Mousa Broch]

[[Category:Brochs and Forts]]