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Outer Brough, Fetlar
Shetland Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4195
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4195 (4195)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shetland Islands
- Historic county
- Shetland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Fetlar
- National Grid reference
- HU 6715 9315
- Latitude
- 60.61627
- Longitude
- -0.77487
- Altitude
- 37 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
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.74 ha
- Footprint
- 0.87 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Other (1930); Earthwork Survey (1970); Other (1970); Other (1976)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3870
- HER
- Shetland Amenity Trust 44
- National record
- record HU 69 SE 1; monument 1421
- Wikidata
- Q31118415
Sources
References
- Lamb, R G (1973) 'Coastal settlements of the north'. Scot Archaeol Forum 5 (1973), 76-98
- Lamb, R G (1976) 'The Burri Stacks of Culswick, Shetland, and other paired stack-settlements'.
- Proc Soc Antiq Scot 107 (1975-6), 144-54
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- 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