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Mainland, The Brough
Orkney Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2841
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2841 (2841)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Orkney Islands
- Historic county
- Orkney
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Andrews And Deerness
- National Grid reference
- HY 5450 1005
- Latitude
- 58.97528
- Longitude
- -2.79310
- Altitude
- 45 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.03 ha
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1880); Other (1964); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- HER
- Orkney Islands 3107
- National record
- record HY 51 SW 4; monument 3107
- Wikidata
- Q31052505
Sources
References
- Lamb, R G (1979) 'The Brough (St Andrews and Deerness p). Promontory fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1979). 20
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/