Ness of Burgi fort

The Ness of Burgi is a Promontory Fort ( or Dun, here called because of the rectangular shape Blockhouse ) with elements of a Broch, at Sumburgh in the Scottish Shetland Islands. From the A970 branches at Bracks, just before the Sumburgh Airport, a small road to the south, running along the Scat Ness. The reachable only on foot promontory, on which the fort is situated, is threatened by erosion.

The southern tip of Shetland's main island of Mainland bifurcates into two approximately three kilometers long, rocky headlands, both of which were probably fixed during the Iron Age. The western tip has along its east coast two forts, one thing is Scatness, half of which has already been toppled by erosion into the sea. The other, more outwardly located, Ness of Burgi is.

Both plants have been dug up in 1935, but none yielded datable evidence for their construction. The stones of the excavation of Burgi were set up in a neat but rather misleading pile on the outside wall. The fort is protected by a wide barrier, which is externally reinforced with layers of stone. Flanked the wall that seals off the headland at both sides each by a rock-cut trench. A straight aggregated with stones pass through the ramparts, past the inner ditch.

The walls of the fort still stands more than 1.5 m. Originally, the Wall, a higher structure ( four meters), which is obtained partly above the unusually low covered with plates passage. The 22 m long fort has six -meter thick walls.

A guard cell in the passage and bolt holes indicate that there was a door fuse as it actually is common in Broch. The only accessible from the inside hole on the east side of the passage and another cell on the west side, are elements that were common for Broch. About any building in the Fort is not known.