Underhoull Broch Unst Shetland islands
Neighbouring the island of Yell is Unst, Shetland’s most northerly island and home to over a dozen brochs. One of the best to visit is the Underhoull Broch, with its deep ditches and ramparts enclosing the broch structure. The broch is no more than a grassy mound on the hill, but the structure is clearly defined, and the views across to Lund and beyond to sea are impressive.
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Underhoull, like many of the broch sites in Shetland, is one of continuous occupation, and two longhouses stand, just a stone’s throw away from the broch, evidence of the later Viking and Norse influence on the area.
Brochs stood all around the coastline of Shetland, generally in coastal locations, but sometimes beside lochs or on outlying islands that may have at one time been linked to the mainland before sea levels began rising. Where Old Scatness is one of Shetland’s most southerly brochs,Underhoull represents one of the most northerly. It has been suggested that the brochs may have worked together, sending out early warning signals to each other to report danger. Each broch is in view of another, and this intervisibility could have been used advantageously to send smoke signals to neighbouring brochs, sending signals across Iron Shetland and beyond.
Shetland’s broch sites are incredible, and discovering them is great fun, yet, even today, the brochs ask more questions than they answer.
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