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<< Text Pages >> Balta Isle Broch - Broch or Nuraghe in Scotland in Shetland

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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Balta Isle Broch
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 50.556 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Shetland Type: Broch or Nuraghe

Map Ref: HP66030888
Latitude: 60.757488N  Longitude: 0.790222W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
4
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Broch at the Isle of Balta (Shetland)

From SolarMegalith: Ruins of a broch of 15,3 m diameter with walls of 4 m thickness. A watch house in the nearby is build from tower’s debris.

MacKie E.W. 2002. The roundhouses, brochs and wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c. 700BC - AD500: architecture and material culture. Part 1 - The Orkney and Shetland Isles. British Archaeological Reports.

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
HP6608 : North Sail, Balta by Mike Pennington
by Mike Pennington
©2010(licence)
HP6608 : The north end of Balta from Sothers Field by Mike Pennington
by Mike Pennington
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HP6608 : Stack in the Geo of Brough, Balta isle by Mike Pennington
by Mike Pennington
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HP6609 : The north end of the isle of Balta by Mike Pennington
by Mike Pennington
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HP6508 : The rig Ocean Endeavour and the supply vessel Skandi Skansen off Balta, Unst by Mike Pennington
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