What is "brochs"

Usage examples of "brochs".

Everywhere writhed the open-jawed dragon of Aberwyn, carved onto the outer gates, displayed on the blue and silver banners hanging from the brochs, sculpted in marble in the center of the fountain, carved again on the doors into the broch, inlaid in blue slate on the floor of the great hall, blazoned on the shirts of every rider and servant, embroidered into the bed hangings and cushions of the luxurious chamber that Jill was going to share with Dannyan.

Smoke rising from the brochs and from the wheelhouses … Impossible that it could have happened!

Hundreds of human beings had settled in our valley, paying homage to us as the lords, building their smaller brochs around our larger ones, and seeing us as a great, mysterious, but altogether human family of rulers.

All rushed to their brochs to take up arms and to defend their positions.

Dun Deverry stood on the crest of a high hill and spilled over it, too, trailing down the sides in a jumble of towers and barracks, storage sheds and brochs.

She ran to the gates of the main ward to wave Anasyn and Abrwnna out, then slowly, thinking of very little, she walked back to the cluster of brochs.

Twilight was darkening the sky, turning the jumble of brochs, towers, walls, and sheds into an incomprehensible mass of stonework.

Their procession made one last turn and came out into what she assumed was the main ward, a huge cobbled open space surrounding a complex of brochs, half-brochs, and oddly random-seeming towers.

He could see over the brochs and sheds and general clutter of Dun Deverry all the way down the grassy hill to the outer walls.

Tall towers, squat brochs, wooden sheds, long barracks and stables - they sprawled in a plan turned random by hundreds of years of decay, the fires of war, and the disasters of siege, followed by what new building and fortifying the kings had been able to afford.

In the centre of this tangle, however, lay a proper ward, and in its centre rose the tidy cluster of brochs and towers that housed the prince, his family, his personal guards, and the many officials and servants that made up his court.

According to that, the earliest brochs in Deverry weren't built with proper floors and chambers and suchlike.

They were sitting in the little garden behind the joined brochs of Dun Gwerbyn, where the last red roses drooped against gray stone.

The second floor of one of the secondary brochs, it was more a large suite than a hall, a sign that the tieryns of Dun Gwerbyn could support their womenfolk in luxury.

She found a page who knew where Rhodry was quartered and followed him up the spiral staircase and through the confused corridors of the joined brochs for what seemed an embarrassingly long way before he pointed out Rhodry's door with a sly and knowing smile.