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Burraland
Shetland Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4188
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4188 (4188)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shetland Islands
- Historic county
- Shetland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunrossness
- National Grid reference
- HU 4468 2319
- Latitude
- 59.99128
- Longitude
- -1.20092
- Altitude
- 20 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
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.9 ha
- Footprint
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1774); Other (1822); Other (1852); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Other (1930); Other (1934); Other (1968); Other (1970); Other (1987); Other (1998); Other (2012); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2054
- HER
- Shetland Amenity Trust 726
- National record
- record HU 42 SW 1; monument 948
- Wikidata
- Q31118398
Sources
References
- Hibbert, S (1822) A Description of the Shetland Islands. Constable and Co: Edinburgh
- 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
- 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
- SCAPE http://scharp.co.uk/
- Wilson, G (2003) 'Assessment survey: Shetland'. In Dawson, T (ed) Coastal archaeology and erosion in Scotland. Edinburgh