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Inner Brough, Fetlar
Shetland Islands, Scotland · Atlas SC4196
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4196 (4196)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shetland Islands
- Historic county
- Shetland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Fetlar
- National Grid reference
- HU 6703 9300
- Latitude
- 60.61496
- Longitude
- -0.77722
- Altitude
- 40 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
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 4.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1930); Other (1969); Earthwork Survey (1970); Other (1976); Other (2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3869
- HER
- Shetland Amenity Trust 2110
- National record
- record HU 69 SE 2; monument 1422
- Wikidata
- Q31118440
Sources
References
- Blaeu, W J & J (1654) Orcadum et Shetlandiae Insularum accuratissima descriptio. Amsterdam
- Lamb, R G (1970) «Shetland, Fetlar; Inner Brough of Strandburgh, ? promontory fort and/ or religious settlement'. Disc Exc Scot (1970), 34
- 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
- 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