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The Mystery of Scottish Brochs and Irish Round Towers (Megalithic)
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Boreades


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It's because you need the exercise.
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Mick Harper
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Yes, they do.
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Boreades


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They have been sent out for their daily exercise, and have returned with stray thoughts.

We're told that Brochs are "unique" to Scotland. They are found nowhere else (it is said). Except, that is, for the brochs on Sardinia.



developed during the Nuragic Age between 1900 and 730 B.C. Today it has come to be the symbol of Sardinia and its distinctive culture, the Nuragic civilization. More than 7,000 nuraghes have been found, though archeologists believe that originally there were more than 10,000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuraghe

Which came first, the Brochs in Scotland, or the Nuragic in Sardinia? Does that imply a wholesale move of these folk northwards?

Proud boasts in the Declaration of Arbroath spring to mind.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Declaration_of_Arbroath
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