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Lambhoga Head
Shetland Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4183
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4183 (4183)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shetland Islands
- Historic county
- Shetland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunrossness
- National Grid reference
- HU 4086 1369
- Latitude
- 59.90638
- Longitude
- -1.27120
- Altitude
- 15 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 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
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
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1956); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1968); Earthwork Survey (1970); Other (2010)
Identifiers
- HER
- Shetland Amenity Trust 623
- National record
- record HU 41 SW 1; monument 915
- Wikidata
- Q31118361
Sources
References
- Lamb, R G (1980) Iron Age promontory forts in the Northern Isles. Brit Archaeol Rep, British Ser 79. BAR: Oxford
- Stewart, J (1956) 'Lammigert, Dunrossness'. Disc Exc Scot (1956), 26