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Ness of Burgi
Shetland Islands, Scotland · Atlas SC4180
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4180 (4180)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shetland Islands
- Historic county
- Shetland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunrossness
- National Grid reference
- HU 3878 0839
- Latitude
- 59.85900
- Longitude
- -1.30943
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery and animal bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1877); Other (1882); Earthwork Survey (1930); Other (1934); Excavation (1935); Other (1963); Other (1968); Other (1970); Other (1971); Excavation (1983)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 90226
- HER
- Shetland Amenity Trust 557
- National record
- record HU 30 NE 2; monument 515
- Wikidata
- Q31118381
Sources
References
- Carter, S P, McCullagh, R P J and MacSween, A (1995) 'The Iron Age in Shetland: excavations at five sites threatened by coastal erosion'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 125 (1995), 429-82
- Lamb, R G (1980) Iron Age promontory forts in the Northern Isles. Brit Archaeol Rep, British Ser 79. BAR: Oxford
- MacKie, E W (2002) The roundhouses, brochs and wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c. 700BC - AD500: architecture and material culture Part 1 - The Orkney and Shetland Isles. BAR British Series 342: Oxford
- Mowbray, C L (1936) 'Excavation at the Ness of Burgi, Shetland'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 70 (1935-6), 381-7
- 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
- Smith, J A (1883) 'Notes on some implements, etc, from Shetland, now presented to the museum'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 17 (1882-3), 291-9