Resumen de Brochs and Iron Age society: a reappraisal

Mike Parker Pearson, Niall Sharples, Jacqui Mulville

• The brochs, great stone towers of Iron Age Scotland, are famously puzzling. Who inhabited these strongholds (if habitations they were)? New fieldwork at the broch of Dun Vulan, on South Uist in the Western Isles, prompts reappraisal of the geographical and social context of the brochs, by developing untapped sources of social evidence.