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Footabrough

Broch (Iron Age)(Possible)

Site Name Footabrough

Classification Broch (Iron Age)(Possible)

Canmore ID 316

Site Number HU24NW 27

NGR HU 2001 4952

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Shetland Islands
  • Parish Walls And Sandness
  • Former Region Shetland Islands Area
  • Former District Shetland
  • Former County Shetland

Archaeology Notes

HU24NW 27 2001 4952.

(HU 1998 4955) Brough (NR)

OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1900)

A broch now represented by a grass-grown mound, 12' high. On the W side, four or five courses of the outer face are exposed for some distance. Towards the SW a line of masonry seems to run off to the edge of the shelving rocks. No further indication of the ground plan is apparent.

RCAHMS 1946, visited 1931

HU 2000 4953. Generally as described by RCAHMS. The outer wall face is visible on the W and N to a height of 1.3m, giving a conjectural diameter of c.19.5m.

Visited by OS (W D J) 12 June 1968.

Activities

Publication Account (2002)

HU24 4 FOOTABROUGH

HU/200495

Probable broch in Walls and Sandness, now only a grass-grown mound 12 ft. high. Four or five course of the outer wall are visible on the west.

Sources: 1. OS card HU 24 NW 27: 2. RCAHMS 1946, vol. 3, no. 1608, 146.

E W MacKie 2002

Field Visit (July 2014)

Site visit in July, 2014. The structure retains a natural stone shore defence which protects what remains of this broch. That natural shore protection and its situation, within the end of the Voe of Footabrough, affords a decent level of protection from further erosion.

Visited by Scotland's Coastal Heritage at Risk (SCHARP) July 2014

Field Visit (28 August 2015)

Visited on 22/08/2015, as described.

Visited by Scotland's Coastal Heritage at Risk (SCHARP) 28 August 2015

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