Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 575411
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
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HU47 1 FUGLA NESS HU/438777
This probable broch in Delting, now very ruinous, stands at the foot of gently sloping, fertile land and next to the rocky shore. It is partly surrounded by two earth ramparts with a wide ditch between them, the steep slope to the beach apparently having formed the defences on the east half. Two mural cells are visible on the east, on the side nearest the sea, and one seems to have a door lintel in its western side, facing along the wall. The side of a passage seems to protrude over the beach between these two chambers which are therefore likely to be a pair of guard cells flanking the main entrance, as the Commission's investigators surmised. Any attackers would have had to have climbed up to the entrance from the beach below and a direct rush would have been impossible (visited 4/6/63).
Sources: 1. OS card HU 47 NW 6: 2. RCAHMS 1946, vol. 3, no. 1115, 9 and fig. 465 (plan)..
E W MacKie 2002
