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South Ronaldsay, Brough of Windwick
Orkney Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2814
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2814 (2814)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Orkney Islands
- Historic county
- Orkney
- Parish, community, or townland
- South Ronaldsay
- National Grid reference
- ND 4585 8724
- Latitude
- 58.76951
- Longitude
- -2.93785
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1970); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1973); Other (1981)
Identifiers
- HER
- Orkney Islands 9518
- National record
- record ND 48 NE 1; monument 9518
- Wikidata
- Q31052447
Sources
References
- Lamb, R G (1971) 'South Ronaldsay, The Brough, Linklater, multivallate promontory fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1971), 31
- Lamb, R G (1980) Iron Age promontory forts in the Northern Isles. Brit Archaeol Rep, British Ser 79. BAR: Oxford