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Tonga, Scatness
Shetland Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4181
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4181 (4181)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shetland Islands
- Historic county
- Shetland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunrossness
- National Grid reference
- HU 3887 0880
- Latitude
- 59.86274
- Longitude
- -1.30762
- Altitude
- 10 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 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, animal bones, and environmental material
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1971); Earthwork Survey (1983); Excavation (1983)
Identifiers
- HER
- Shetland Amenity Trust 556
- National record
- record HU 30 NE 5; monument 518
- Wikidata
- Q31118353
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 (1971) 'Scatness - Coastal fort'. 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