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Yell, Burgi Geos
Shetland Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4169
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4169 (4169)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shetland Islands
- Historic county
- Shetland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Yell
- National Grid reference
- HP 4781 0338
- Latitude
- 60.71085
- Longitude
- -1.12577
- Altitude
- 45 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.02 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- chevaux de frise and multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1853); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Other (1931); Other (1969); Earthwork Survey (1970); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 11274
- HER
- Shetland Amenity Trust 21
- National record
- record HP 40 SE 1; monument 4
- Wikidata
- Q31118553
Sources
References
- Lamb, R G (1980) Iron Age promontory forts in the Northern Isles. Brit Archaeol Rep, British Ser 79. BAR: Oxford: plan at fig. 10, p.28.
- 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