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Hoy, Braebister
Orkney Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2836
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2836 (2836)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Orkney Islands
- Historic county
- Orkney
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hoy And Graemsay
- National Grid reference
- HY 2130 0522
- Latitude
- 58.92710
- Longitude
- -3.36869
- Altitude
- 15 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 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Footprint
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, heather moorland, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1880); Other (1929); Other (1964); Other (1970)
Identifiers
- HER
- Orkney Islands 1564
- National record
- record HY 20 NW 20; monument 1564
- Wikidata
- Q31052480
Sources
References
- Lamb, R G (1980) Iron Age promontory forts in the Northern Isles. Brit Archaeol Rep, British Ser 79. BAR: Oxford
- 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