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Burrier Head
Shetland Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4174
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4174 (4174)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shetland Islands
- Historic county
- Shetland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Walls And Sandness
- National Grid reference
- HU 1690 5145
- Latitude
- 60.24710
- Longitude
- -1.69650
- Altitude
- 15 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
- Enclosed area
- 0.31 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
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1970); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- HER
- Shetland Amenity Trust 2470
- National record
- record HU 15 SE 8; monument 240
- Wikidata
- Q31118529
Sources
References
- Fojut, N (1978) 'Burrier Head: house'. Disc Exc Scot (1978), 19
- Lamb, R G (1971) 'Walls Parish, Burrier Head, Dale'. Disc Exc Scot (1971), 41
- Lamb, R G (1980) Iron Age promontory forts in the Northern Isles. Brit Archaeol Rep, British Ser 79. BAR: Oxford