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Noss Sound, Bressay
Shetland Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4190
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4190 (4190)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shetland Islands
- Historic county
- Shetland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bressay
- National Grid reference
- HU 5280 4096
- Latitude
- 60.14986
- Longitude
- -1.05083
- Altitude
- 10 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
- 0.09 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
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1822); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Other (1930); Other (1934); Other (1968); Other (2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2061
- HER
- Shetland Amenity Trust 759
- National record
- record HU 54 SW 8; monument 1290
- Wikidata
- Q31118335
Sources
References
- Hibbert, S (1822) A Description of the Shetland Islands. Constable and Co: Edinburgh
- 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 (p 117)
- 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