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Gairsay, Ness of Boray
Orkney Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2839
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2839 (2839)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Orkney Islands
- Historic county
- Orkney
- Parish, community, or townland
- Evie And Rendall
- National Grid reference
- HY 4426 2100
- Latitude
- 59.07240
- Longitude
- -2.97396
- Altitude
- 5 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1928); Excavation (1928); Other (1936); Other (1960); Other (1967); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1972)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1442
- HER
- Orkney Islands 2690
- National record
- record HY 42 SW 4; monument 2690
- Wikidata
- Q31052687
Sources
References
- 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