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Ness of Burgi Fort is in Scottish Islands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 59.8590°, -1.3090°.

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Ness of Burgi Fort

Ness of Burgi Fort is a fort in the United Kingdom.

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Ness of Burgi Fort is a historic fort or fortified site in the United Kingdom. Coordinates: 59.8590°, -1.3090°. This entry is part of The Great Britain Guide, a free, ad-free, open-data tourist directory.

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The Ness of Burgi fort is an iron-age promontory fort in the Old Scatness archaeological site on the Ness of Burgi, a narrow finger of land reaching south from the Scat Ness in the far south of the island of Mainland, Shetland in Scotland.

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The blockhouse, probably built about 100 BC seems to be excessively large for the area that it protects, and so was perhaps more designed to impress rather than to defend. The blockhouse structure seems to have been built as an integral part of the defensive wall. The walls do not reach the edges of the cliffs on either side. There is no evidence that they once reached further and since have been shortened through natural or human activity. The ends are properly finished. It seems that the gaps were deliberate, and defense was not a primary concern. In fact, there are other points on the promontory that provide equally good natural defensive positions. There may be some similarity in this…

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