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Brei Holm, Papa Stour
Shetland Islands, Scotland · Atlas SC4197
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4197 (4197)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shetland Islands
- Historic county
- Shetland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Walls And Sandness
- National Grid reference
- HU 1883 6038
- Latitude
- 60.32719
- Longitude
- -1.66081
- Altitude
- 15 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 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Interior excavation
- rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery, metalworking, animal bones, and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1798); Other (1930); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1968); Other (1973); Earthwork Survey (2000); Excavation (2000)
Identifiers
- HER
- Shetland Amenity Trust 253
- National record
- record HU 16 SE 2; monument 253
- Wikidata
- Q31118550
Sources
References
- Brady, K (2000) Brei Holm Survey and Excavations Papa Stour, Shetland (Data Structure Report). Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow
- Brady, K (2002) 'Brei Holm, Pap Stour: in the footsteps of the papar?'. 69-82 in Crawford, B E (ed) The Papar in the North Atlantic: environment and history. St. Andrews
- Brady, K and Batey, C (2008) 'Excavations and Survey on Brei Holm and Maiden Stack, Papa Stour, Shetland'. Scottish Archaeol J 30.1/2 (2008), 1-64
- 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