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iron Age Textiles

Wednesday 13 August 2025

Broch of Gurness

Discover more about Iron Age life through the textiles people may have used and how they were made, and try your hand at making then yourself.

This is a drop-in event.

Wednesday 13 August 2025


Included in admission price

Book tickets

There is a large dedicated gravel parking area.

The nearest public toilet is located at Evie Pier, which is a 10-minute drive / 24 minute walk away.

The broch is 180m along a gravel path and through a kissing gate (the gap is approx 0.5m wide).

There is a single step into the visitor centre.

The site has uneven ground, which is mostly grass.

The broch ruins have numerous steps and level changes.