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Stronsay, The Brough of Burgh Head
Orkney Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2844
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2844 (2844)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Orkney Islands
- Historic county
- Orkney
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stronsay
- National Grid reference
- HY 6973 2284
- Latitude
- 59.09149
- Longitude
- -2.52998
- Altitude
- 32 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 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.24 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1970); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- HER
- Orkney Islands 3363
- National record
- record HY 62 SE 21; monument 3363
- Wikidata
- Q31052579
Sources
References
- Lamb, R G (1970) 'The Brough, Burgh Head, Stronsay. Possible fort or early religious settlement'. Disc Exc Scot (1970), 33