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Unst, Blue Mull
Shetland Islands, Scotland · Atlas SC3723
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3723 (3723)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shetland Islands
- Historic county
- Shetland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Unst
- National Grid reference
- HP 5583 0423
- Latitude
- 60.71748
- Longitude
- -0.97856
- Altitude
- 68 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 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 8.2 ha
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1774); Other (1822); Other (1930); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1969); Other (1971); Other (1997)
Identifiers
- HER
- Shetland Amenity Trust 126
- National record
- record HP 50 SE 19; monument 38
- Wikidata
- Q31118513
Sources
References
- Hibbert, S (1822) A Description of the Shetland Islands. Edinburgh
- Lamb, R G (1973) 'Coastal settlements of the north'. Scot Archaeol Forum 5 (1973), 76-98
- Lamb, R G (1976) 'The Burri Stacks of Culswick, Shetland, and other paired stack-settlements'.
- Proc Soc Antiq Scot 107 (1975-6), 144-54
- Low, G (1879) A Tour through the Islands of Orkney and Schetland in 1774, in Anderson, J Kirkwall
- 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