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Aastack, Yell
Shetland Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4198
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4198 (4198)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shetland Islands
- Historic county
- Shetland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Yell
- National Grid reference
- HP 4774 0444
- Latitude
- 60.72046
- Longitude
- -1.12675
- 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 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.18 ha
- Footprint
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1971); Other (2000)
Identifiers
- HER
- Shetland Amenity Trust 2108
- National record
- record HP 40 SE 2; monument 5
- Wikidata
- Q31118564
Sources
References
- Lamb, R G (1976) 'The Burri Stacks of Culswick, Shetland, and other paired stack-settlements'.
- Proc Soc Antiq Scot 107 (1975-6), 144-54