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Hoy, St John's Head, Brae Brough
Orkney Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2835
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2835 (2835)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Orkney Islands
- Historic county
- Orkney
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hoy And Graemsay
- National Grid reference
- HY 1854 0311
- Latitude
- 58.90764
- Longitude
- -3.41584
- Altitude
- 300 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 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.87 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1970)
Identifiers
- HER
- Orkney Islands 1480
- National record
- record HY 10 SE 1; monument 1480
- Wikidata
- Q31052462
Sources
References
- Lamb, R G (1970) 'Bre(or Brae) Brough, Hoy, ? defended promontory'. Disc Exc Scot (1970), 34