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Burri Stacks, Culswick
Shetland Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4177
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4177 (4177)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shetland Islands
- Historic county
- Shetland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Sandsting
- National Grid reference
- HU 2609 4410
- Latitude
- 60.18062
- Longitude
- -1.53145
- Altitude
- 15 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 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.08 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
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
- Other (1973)
Identifiers
- HER
- Shetland Amenity Trust 3641
- National record
- record HU 24 SE 10; monument 331
- Wikidata
- Q31118497
Sources
References
- Lamb, R G (1973) 'Coastal settlements of the north'. Scot Archaeol Forum 5 (1973), 76-98
- Lamb, R G (1974) 'Culswick, Burri Stacks; early monastic settlement'. Disc Exc Scot (1974), 62
- Lamb, R G (1976) 'The Burri Stacks of Culswick, Shetland, and other paired stack-settlements'.
- Proc Soc Antiq Scot 107 (1975-6), 144-54