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South Ronaldsay, Weems Castle
Orkney Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2811
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2811 (2811)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Orkney Islands
- Historic county
- Orkney
- Parish, community, or townland
- South Ronaldsay
- National Grid reference
- ND 4337 8885
- Latitude
- 58.78359
- Longitude
- -2.98125
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1774); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1879); Earthwork Survey (1929); Other (1973); Other (1997)
Identifiers
- HER
- Orkney Islands 9546
- National record
- record ND 48 NW 2; monument 9546
- Wikidata
- Q31052398
Sources
References
- Low, G (1879) A Tour through the Islands of Orkney and Schetland in 1774 (Anderson, J, ed). Kirkwall
- RCAHMS (1946) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Twelfth report with an inventory of the ancient monuments of Orkney and Shetland, 3v. HMSO: Edinburgh
- Wilson and Moore, G and H (1997) 'Orkney Coastal Survey (South Ronaldsay; Walls & Flotta; Hoy & Graemsay parishes)'. Disc Exc Scot (1997), 58