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Unst, Flubersgerdie
Shetland Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4170
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4170 (4170)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shetland Islands
- Historic county
- Shetland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Unst
- National Grid reference
- HP 5711 1249
- Latitude
- 60.79143
- Longitude
- -0.95257
- Altitude
- 30 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
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.08 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Other (1930); Other (1969); Earthwork Survey (1970); Other (1978); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- HER
- Shetland Amenity Trust 377
- National record
- record HP 51 SE 1; monument 84
- Wikidata
- Q31118505
Sources
References
- Fojut, N (1978) 'Shetland, Geos of Brough: house'. Disc Exc Scot (1978), 19
- 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