Stone oil lamp base unearthed at Broch of Gurness

Stone oil lamp base unearthed at Broch of Gurness

Broch of Gurness is an Iron Age village in the western Orkney Islands, Scotland, about 2,000 years old. This roughly chiseled lamp, once filled with oil, could once provide light from a slow-burning wick. Found in an Iron Age settlement Gurness of Broch.