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Fair Isle, Landberg
Shetland Islands, Scotland · Atlas SC2861
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2861 (2861)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shetland Islands
- Historic county
- Shetland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunrossness
- National Grid reference
- HZ 2229 7225
- Latitude
- 59.53587
- Longitude
- -1.60744
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Footprint
- 0.14 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, heather moorland, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50, AD 50–400, and AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses and rectangular structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Other (1930); Other (1961); Other (1967); Other (1968); Earthwork Survey (1970); Earthwork Survey (1988); Excavation (1993); Excavation (1996); Excavation (1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2082
- HER
- Shetland Amenity Trust 1740
- National record
- record HZ 27 SW 6; monument 3915
- Wikidata
- Q31118265
Sources
References
- Hunter, J R (1996) Fair Isle: The Archaeology of an Island Community. National Trust for Scotland. HMSO: Edinburgh
- Hunter, J R (1996b) 'The Landberg, Fair Isle (Dunrossness parish), Iron Age promontory fort, medieval building'. Disc Exc Scot (1996), 94
- Hunter, J R (1997) 'The Landberg, Fair Isle (Dunrossness parish), Iron Age promontory fort', Disc Exc Scot (1997), 68-69
- Lamb, R G (1980) Iron Age promontory forts in the Northern Isles. Brit Archaeol Rep, British Ser 79. 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