Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 575454
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
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HU59 3 SNA BROCH 2 ('Sna Brough', 'Snaburgh') HU/578933
Possible broch on the west coast of Fetlar I., consisting of a segment of a series of ramparts and ditches most of which has been swept away by the sea. The remains suggest that the defences protected a broch but that this has completely vanished. The rampart fragments -- apparently partly faced with stone -- are still on average 1.83 - 2.14 m (6-7 ft.) high and 3.66 - 3.97 m (12-13 ft.) wide at base. The innermost defence -- a fragment of which remains at the edge of the cliff -- seems likely to be a piece of an outer defensive wall rather than of the broch itself [4]. A well used to be visible in the outer ditch [2, 3].
Sources: 1. OS card HU 59 SE 1: 2. Low 1774, 166: 3. Hibbert 1822, 387: 4. RCAHMS 1946, vol. 3, no. 1210, 55-6 and fig. 542.
E W MacKie 2002