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Bay of Garth
Shetland Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4178
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4178 (4178)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shetland Islands
- Historic county
- Shetland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Walls And Sandness
- National Grid reference
- HU 2165 5822
- Latitude
- 60.30766
- Longitude
- -1.60998
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 3, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.22 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and rectangular stone structures
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Other (1931); Other (1956); Other (1968); Other (1971); Other (1980); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5540
- HER
- Shetland Amenity Trust 2532
- National record
- record HU 25 NW 2; monument 379
- Wikidata
- Q31118548
Sources
References
- Fojut, N (1980) 'Pottery'. Disc Exc Scot (1980), 28
- 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
- Stewart, J (1956) 'Collaster Sandness'. Disc Exc Scot (1956), 27