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Fetlar, Brough Lodge
Broch (Iron Age)(Possible)
Site Name Fetlar, Brough Lodge
Classification Broch (Iron Age)(Possible)
Canmore ID 1393
Site Number HU59SE 4
NGR HU 5806 9265
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/1393
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Fetlar
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU59SE 4 5806 9265.
(HU 5806 9266) Tower of Site of (T.I.) Brough (OE)
O.S.6"map, Shetland, 2nd ed.,(1900).
The probable site of a broch, occupied by a modern tower.
Low records that the broch was 'situate on the top of a small hill; the walls entirely in ruins; without any outworks as its situation did not require them'. He adds 'near this last in a mass were found, wrapt in a raw hide, six pieces of cast brass of a very singular figure, the workmanship fine, seemingly designed for fetters. Three of them were jointed, the other three whole.'(G A Low 1879)
RCAHMS 1946. Visited 1930.
Wilson describes and illustrates a stone basin 12" x 8 1/2, with handles, which was found within the area of a 'PECH'S BURGH' at Brough,in Shetland. This may be a reference to this site.
D Wilson 1863
There are no remains of this broch, A low circular bank around the summit of the hillock, within which the modern tower is built does not appear to be part of the broch structure.
Visited by OS (NKB) 15th May 1969.
Field Visit (10 September 1930)
Broch, near Brough Lodge. A modern tower has been erected on the spot where this broch is believed to have stood. Low (Tour, 166) records that it was "situate on the top of a small hill; the walls entirely in ruins; without any outworks as its situation did not require them," and he adds, ‘Near this last in a moss were found, wrapt in a raw hide, six pieces of cast brass of a very singular figure, the workmanship fine; seemingly designed for fetters. Three of them were jointed, the other three whole’.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 10 September 1930.
O.S.6"map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1900).
Publication Account (2002)
HU59 2 BROUGH LODGE HU/581927
Site of possible broch on Fetlar I., occupied by a modern tower; there are no remains to be seen.
Sources: 1. OS card HU 59 SE 4: 2. Low 1879, 166: 3. RCAHMS 1946, vol. 3, no. 1238, 62.
E W MacKie 2002
