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Mainland, Yesnaby, Brough of Bigging
Orkney Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2837
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2837 (2837)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Orkney Islands
- Historic county
- Orkney
- Parish, community, or townland
- Sandwick
- National Grid reference
- HY 2194 1574
- Latitude
- 59.02166
- Longitude
- -3.36130
- Altitude
- 30 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.41 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 1.21 ha, 1.41 ha
- Footprint
- 1.41 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
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
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1841); Other (1928); Earthwork Survey (1970); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1973); Other (1981); Geophysical Survey (2010); Other (2013); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6214
- HER
- Orkney Islands 1693
- National record
- record HY 21 NW 7; monument 1693
- Wikidata
- Q31052658
Sources
References
- Lamb, R G (1980) Iron Age promontory forts in the Northern Isles. Brit Archaeol Rep, British Ser 79. BAR: Oxford
- Moore, J (2010) 'Brough of Bigging, Orkney (Sandwick parish), geophysical survey'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 11 (2010), 126
- NSA (1834-1845) The New Statistical Account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy, 15v. Edinburgh
- 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