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Hoga Ness, Unst
Shetland Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4179
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4179 (4179)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shetland Islands
- Historic county
- Shetland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Unst
- National Grid reference
- HP 5578 0052
- Latitude
- 60.68415
- Longitude
- -0.98057
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.15 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (North); Simple Gap (South east); Blocked (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1774); Other (1822); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Earthwork Survey (1930); Other (1938); Other (1969)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2072
- HER
- Shetland Amenity Trust 157
- National record
- record HP 50 SE 3; monument 50
- Wikidata
- Q31118517
Sources
References
- Hibbert, S (1822) A Description of the Shetland Islands. Edinburgh
- Low, G (1879) A Tour through the Islands of Orkney and Schetland in 1774. Kirkwall
- 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