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Aithbank, Winna Tonga, Fetlar
Shetland Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4194
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4194 (4194)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shetland Islands
- Historic county
- Shetland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Fetlar
- National Grid reference
- HU 6417 8972
- Latitude
- 60.58594
- Longitude
- -0.83052
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
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 (1970); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- HER
- Shetland Amenity Trust 52
- National record
- record HU 68 NW 5; monument 1409
- Wikidata
- Q31118407
Sources
References
- Lamb, R G (1980) Iron Age promontory forts in the Northern Isles. Brit Archaeol Rep, British Ser 79. BAR: Oxford