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Mainland, Riggin of Kami
Orkney Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2847
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2847 (2847)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Orkney Islands
- Historic county
- Orkney
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Andrews And Deerness
- National Grid reference
- HY 5917 0743
- Latitude
- 58.95223
- Longitude
- -2.71140
- Altitude
- 15 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
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1930); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1964); Other (1970); Other (1973); Earthwork Survey (1980); Excavation (1981); Other (1986); Other (1987); Other (1988)
Identifiers
- HER
- Orkney Islands 2934
- National record
- record HY 50 NE 20 & 28; monument 2934
- Wikidata
- Q31052609
Sources
References
- Lamb, R G (1980) Iron Age promontory forts in the Northern Isles. Brit Archaeol Rep, British Ser 79. BAR: Oxford
- MacKie, E W (2002) The roundhouses, brochs and wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c. 700BC - AD500: architecture and material culture Part 1 - The Orkney and Shetland Isles. Brit Archaeol Rep, British Ser 342. BAR: Oxford
- 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
- Smith, B (1988) 'Riggan of Kami (St Andrews and Deerness parish). Decorated Iron Age pottery'. Disc Exc Scot (1988), 29
- Steedman, K A (1980) The Archaeology of the Deerness Peninsula, Orkney, M Phil dissertation, University of Durham (copy in Orkney Library),