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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Brough Lodge BrochCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 3.524 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Shetland Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Nearest Town: Lerwick Nearest Village: Fetlar
Map Ref: HU5806392653
Latitude: 60.613064N Longitude: 0.941178W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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A small steep sided hill said to have the remains of a broch on its summit until an oval shaped folly tower was built on top of the hill in the 19th century. The site forms part of Brough Lodge, currently being preserved for the future by the Brough Lodge Trust.
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