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Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 575385
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
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HU41 3 DALSETTER ('Broch of Dalsetter')
HU/408158
Probable broch in Dunrossness, 50m from a precipitous cliff at the north side of the Voe. Only a short length of the outer wall face is visible on the south. The outer defences are extensive and well preserved, consisting of two concentric ramparts separated by a wide ditch and, respectively, 26 ft. and 53 ft. distant from the broch [1, plan: 2, fig. 278]. They are made mainly of earth and rise from 4.5 - 5.0 ft. above the bottom of the ditch; the basal width of the outer one is 12-15 ft.. Amorphous traces of many outbuildings can be seen and there are two wells just outside the outer rampart.
Sources: 1. OS card HU 41 NW 1 (inc. sketch plan): 2. RCAHMS 1946, vol. 3, no. 1146, 26-7 and pls. 478-9 (plates).
E W MacKie 2002
