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Lambigart
Shetland Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4172
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4172 (4172)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shetland Islands
- Historic county
- Shetland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Sandsting
- National Grid reference
- HU 2850 4210
- Latitude
- 60.16251
- Longitude
- -1.48829
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- after AD 800
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1998); Other (2010)
Identifiers
- HER
- Shetland Amenity Trust
- National record
- record HU 24 SE 57; monument 245637
- Wikidata
- Q31118492
Sources
References
- Halliday, S P and Ralston, I B M (2013) 'Major forts and _x0018_minor oppida_x0019_ in Scotland: a reconsideration'. 217-30 in
- Krausz, S, Colin, A, Gruel, K, Ralston, I B M and Dechezlepre_x0002_tre, T (eds) L'a_x0002_ge du fer en Europe: me_x0001_langes offerts a Olivier Buchsenschutz. Ausonius: Bordeaux