Skirza or Skirsa, is a small remote linear fishing village, overlooking
Freswick Bay to the south and Skirza Head to the southeast, in eastern
Caithness
Caithness ( gd, Gallaibh ; sco, Caitnes; non, Katanes) is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland.
Caithness has a land boundary with the historic county of Sutherland to the west and is otherwise bounded by ...
,
Scottish Highlands and is in the
Scottish
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*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
council area of
Highland. The village of
Freswick lies directly southwest of Skirza.
Broch
The remains of the 2nd or 3rd century
Broch
A broch is an Iron Age drystone hollow-walled structure found in Scotland. Brochs belong to the classification "complex Atlantic roundhouse" devised by Scottish archaeologists in the 1980s. Their origin is a matter of some controversy.
Ori ...
is located on the promontory of Skirza Head.
It measures 22ft in diameter within a wall 14ft thick with the entrance in the south-southeast and is protected on the landward side by a 30 foot ditch.
South of the entrance is a basin which is some 10ft deep and 10ft by 7ft across.
References
Populated places in Caithness
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