After leaving the Fairy Pools I backtracked to the main road and carried on up the coast. On the way I stopped just outside the village of Struan to visit the broch of Dun Beag (’small fort’). Skye boasts quite a lot of brochs, but this was the only one I visited because a) it’s apparently the best-preserved (though not in comparison to the ones I saw the previous day) and b) it’s the most accessible and I couldn’t be bothered trekking out to see any of the rest. The stonework, however, was interesting; though it’s drystane masonry like all of them, the stones are much more squared-off and regularly-placed than in any other broch I’ve visited (and I’ve visited a few by now). The style reminds me more of the citadel of Mycenae than Dun Telve, Dun Carloway or Carn Liath, though obviously on a much smaller scale.
