Dun Beag is one of the best preserved brochs and a good example of a broch tower. 

Brochs only appear in Scotland. They are dry stone structures formed of two concentric walls with a narrow entrance passage. Stone stairs ran between the walls to provide access, perhaps to upper floors, and the top.

Scotland’s brochs were built in the Iron Age, first emerging about 2,300 years ago. Their use continued until the middle of the first millennium CE.

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@ChaHarper It's really interesting that brochs are found only in Scotland. An Irishwoman I talked to about crannogs was familiar with them from her homeland, so I had assumed that they would have had brochs as well.
@ChaHarper We're so glad we got to visit Dun Beach when we visited Skye this past May. It's a very special place.
@sbourne That's great. I love the fact that something more than 2,000 years old is just there on a hilltop...
@ChaHarper There's the substantial remains of a building with many of the features of a broch, including the hollow centre, and the double walls and apparent accommodation within them, but roughly rectangular in plan, at Castlehaven Bay near Borgue, in Galloway. Whether it's a related to brochs or not I'm not qualified to say.
@simon_brooke Thanks for telling me it existed...I found the entry on Canmore:
https://canmore.org.uk/site/63623/castle-haven That doesn't make me qualified either but I trust Canmore to be filled with facts rather than opinions...
Castle Haven | Canmore

@ChaHarper they are tantalisingly similar to the nuraghi of Sardinia.
And I can’t remember where I read it but I seem to recall that our sheep are descended from Sardinian sheep.