Nybster

Nybster

Coordinates: 58°33′21″N 3°05′17″W / 58.555836°N 3.08802°W / 58.555836; -3.08802

Nybster
Nybster is located in Caithness
Nybster

 Nybster shown within the Caithness area
OS grid reference ND367876
Council area Highland
Lieutenancy area Inverness
Country Scotland
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Wick
Postcode district KW14
Police Northern
Fire Highlands and Islands
Ambulance Scottish
EU Parliament Scotland
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Nybster is a scattered rural and crofting township, situated in Caithness and is in the Scottish council area of Highland

It is the location of the Nybster Broch. A broch 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). Nybster Broch has a website which is charting recent (2011) excavations.

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.

The hamlet of Auckengill is situated 0.5 mile south of Nybster, along the A9 road.



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