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South Ronaldsay, Castle of Burwick
Orkney Islands, Scotland · Atlas SC2813
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2813 (2813)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Orkney Islands
- Historic county
- Orkney
- Parish, community, or townland
- South Ronaldsay
- National Grid reference
- ND 4348 8423
- Latitude
- 58.74212
- Longitude
- -2.97818
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.17 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800 and after AD 800
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Finds
- pottery, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1774); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1879); Earthwork Survey (1929); Other (1970); Other (1973); Other (1997)
Identifiers
- HER
- Orkney Islands 9561
- National record
- record ND 48 SW 2; monument 9561
- Wikidata
- Q31052426
Sources
References
- Lamb, R G (1973) 'Coastal settlements of the north'. Scot Archaeol Forum 5 (1973), 76-98
- Lamb, R G (1980) Iron Age promontory forts in the Northern Isles. Brit Archaeol Rep, British Ser 79. BAR: Oxford
- Low, G (1879) A Tour through the Islands of Orkney and Schetland in 1774 (Anderson, J, ed). Kirkwall
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- 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), 58-9