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Stronsay, Lamb Head
Orkney Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2848
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2848 (2848)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Orkney Islands
- Historic county
- Orkney
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stronsay
- National Grid reference
- HY 6904 2146
- Latitude
- 59.07905
- Longitude
- -2.54183
- 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 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.32 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1851); Earthwork Survey (1852); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1879); Earthwork Survey (1879); Earthwork Survey (1928); Other (1970); Other (1979); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5631
- HER
- Orkney Islands 3350
- National record
- record HY 62 SE 1; monument 3350
- Wikidata
- Q31052785
Sources
References
- Hedges, J W (1987) Bu, Gurness and the brochs of Orkney, part 3: the brochs of Orkney. Brit Archaeol Rep, British Series 165. BAR: Oxford (p 126-7)
- 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
- Thomas, F W L (1852) 'An account of some Celtic antiquities of Orkney, including the stones of Stenness, tumuli, Picts houses &c., with plans'. Archaeologia 34 (1852), 88-136