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Copinsay, Castle of Sand Geo
Orkney Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2842
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2842 (2842)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Orkney Islands
- Historic county
- Orkney
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Andrews And Deerness
- National Grid reference
- HY 6117 0171
- Latitude
- 58.90105
- Longitude
- -2.67563
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.02 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- animal bones and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1925); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1964); Earthwork Survey (1970); Other (1973)
Identifiers
- HER
- Orkney Islands 3254
- National record
- record HY 60 SW 5; monument 3254
- Wikidata
- Q31052528
Sources
References
- Lamb, R G (1980) Iron Age promontory forts in the Northern Isles. Brit Archaeol Rep, British Ser 79. BAR: Oxford
- Mooney, J (1926) 'Deerness: its islands'. Proc Orkney Archaeol Soc 4 (1926), 27
- 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