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Brough of Stoal, Aywick
Shetland Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4192
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4192 (4192)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shetland Islands
- Historic county
- Shetland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Yell
- National Grid reference
- HU 5455 8730
- Latitude
- 60.56564
- Longitude
- -1.00674
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.04 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Other (1931); Other (1934); Other (1969); Other (1970); Other (2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2085
- HER
- Shetland Amenity Trust 2170
- National record
- record HU 58 NW 1; monument 1363
- Wikidata
- Q31118583
Sources
References
- Lamb, R G (1980) Iron Age promontory forts in the Northern Isles. Brit Archaeol Rep, British Ser 79. BAR: 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