Nybster is a scattered rural and crofting township, situated in
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 ...
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
Highlands or uplands are areas of high elevation such as a mountainous region, elevated mountainous plateau or high hills. Generally speaking, upland (or uplands) refers to ranges of hills, typically from up to while highland (or highlands) is ...
. It is located along the
A9 road, south of
Auckengill
Auckengill is a settlement, south of John o' Groats, on the east coast of Caithness, within the Scottish council area of Highland.
Auckengill is situated north of Nybster.
Museum
As Caithness is the Viking capital of mainland Scotland, Auc ...
and south of
John o' Groats.
It is the location of the
Nybster Broch, first excavated by Rev
James Maxwell Joass
James Maxwell Joass (1830–1914) was a Scottish minister remembered as a geologist, archaeologist and antiquarian. His multiple excavations often combined his geological and archaeological skills.
Life
He was born in Tain, Ross-shire on 8 ...
(of
Golspie in 1895 and again by Sir
Francis Tress Barry in about 1900.
A
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.
Origin ...
is an Iron Age building that is unique to Scotland. This one was probably built between about 200 BC and 200 AD and re-used during the
Pictish period (AD 300 - 800). The Caithness Broch Centre nearby provides an opportunity to learn more about the communities that lived in the brochs, those who excavated them and the communities who are still involved with them today.
References
Populated places in Caithness
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