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Backies Broch

United Kingdom

The 186th tallest tower in the world

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Backies Broch is an Iron Age broch in Sutherland, Scotland, roughly 1.6 miles (2.6 km) north of Golspie.

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Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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