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Kame of Isbister
Shetland Islands, Scotland · Atlas SC4182
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4182 (4182)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shetland Islands
- Historic county
- Shetland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Northmavine
- National Grid reference
- HU 3816 9150
- Latitude
- 60.60523
- Longitude
- -1.30487
- Altitude
- 38 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800 and undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- Excavation (1876); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1900); Other (1931); Earthwork Survey (1970); Other (1976)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3880
- HER
- Shetland Amenity Trust 475
- National record
- record HU 39 SE 4; monument 883
- Wikidata
- Q31118483
Sources
References
- Gordon, G. (1878) Notice of incised sculpturings on the steatite rock at Feideland, the extreme north of the mainland of Shetland, and of a cluster of ruined structures styled Picts houses on the Kaim of Isbister, Shetland', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, vol. 12, 1876-8. Page(s): 202, 205-6
- Lamb, R G (1973) 'Coastal settlements of the north'. Scot Archaeol Forum 5 (1973), 76-98
- Lamb, R G (1976) 'The Burri Stacks of Culswick, Shetland, and other paired stack-settlements'.
- Proc Soc Antiq Scot 107 (1975-6), 144-54