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Nybster
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2820
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2820 (2820)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Caithness
- Parish, community, or townland
- Wick
- National Grid reference
- ND 3702 6314
- Latitude
- 58.55185
- Longitude
- -3.08388
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.15 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (1895); Excavation (1896); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1905); Other (1910); Other (1934); Other (1963); Other (1965); Other (1971); Other (1981); Other (1982); Other (1985); Earthwork Survey (2004); Excavation (2005); Excavation
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 569
- HER
- Highland HER MHG1593
- National record
- record ND 36 SE 56; monument 9329
- Wikidata
- Q31101468
Sources
References
- Anderson, J (1901) 'Notices of nine Brochs along the Caithness coast from Keiss Bay to Skirza Head, excavated by Sir Francis Tress Barry, Bart., MP., of Keiss Castle, Caithness'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 35 (1900-1, 112-53)
- Barber, Heald and Henderson, J, A and J (2004) 'Caithness Brochs Project (Wick parish), broch and settlement'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 5 (2004), 82
- Barber, Heald and Henderson, J, A and J (2005) 'Nybster, Highland (Wick parish), Atlantic roundhouse and outbuildings'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 6 (2005), 91
- Batey, C E (1982) Caithness coastal survey 1982: interim reports 1980-2, typescript Durham University (Available in RCAHMS ).
- Gourlay, R B (1981) 'Brough Head, Nybster (Wick p) potsherds'. Disc Exc Scot (1981), 18
- Heald, Cavers and Douglas, A, G and C (2011) 'Nybster Broch, Highland (Wick parish), excavation'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 12 (2011), 119
- Lamb, R G (1980) Iron Age promontory forts in the Northern Isles. Brit Archaeol Rep, British Ser 79. BAR: Oxford
- MacKie, E W (2007) The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c.700 BC-AD 500: architecture and material culture, the Northern and Southern Mainland and the Western Islands, BAR British series 444(II), 444(1), 2 V. BAR: Oxford
- RCAHMS (1911) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Third report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Caithness. HMSO, London
- Swanson, C B (1988) A contribution to the understanding of brochs, Unpublished Ph D thesis. University of Edinburgh