Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 575456
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
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HU69 1 FEAL ('St. Rognvald's', 'Feal broch')
HU/629902
A much dilapidated probable broch on Fetlar I., on flat ground near the church at Feal. Many stones from the broch mound and the surrounding "outbuildings" were removed to build the church but the external diameter of 19.83 m (65 ft.) is still measurable, as is the 5.03 m (16.5 ft.) thick wall on the west; the wall proportion would thus be about 50.5%. The wall thickens slightly towards the entrance on the east, and a lintel stone still rests on its blocked up passage. There are signs of a mural (guard?) cell on its left and Low refers to "apartments" hollowed out in the wall.
Sources: 1. OS card HU 69 SW 20: 2. Low 1774, 170: 3. RCAHMS 1946, vol. 3, no. 1211, 56.
E W MacKie 2002
