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Fair Isle, Burrista
Shetland Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4259
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4259 (4259)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shetland Islands
- Historic county
- Shetland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunrossness
- National Grid reference
- HZ 2018 7272
- Latitude
- 59.54003
- Longitude
- -1.64477
- Altitude
- 95 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.65 ha
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- Other (1968); Excavation (1968); Other (1985)
Identifiers
- HER
- Shetland Amenity Trust 1357
- National record
- record HZ 27 SW 11; monument 3774
- Wikidata
- Q31118389
Sources
References
- Hunter, J R (1996) Fair Isle: The Archaeology of an Island Community. National Trust for Scotland. HMSO: Edinburgh