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Fetlar, Sna Broch
Shetland Islands, Scotland · Atlas SC4260
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4260 (4260)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shetland Islands
- Historic county
- Shetland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Fetlar
- National Grid reference
- HU 5780 9334
- Latitude
- 60.61941
- Longitude
- -0.94571
- Altitude
- 2 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Other Forms (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1774); Earthwork Survey (1822); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1877); Earthwork Survey (1930); Other (1934); Other (1969); Other (1971); Other (2015)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2084
- HER
- Shetland Amenity Trust 2
- National record
- record HU 59 SE 1; monument 1390
- Wikidata
- Q31118430
Sources
References
- Fojut, N (1983) 'Snabrough Fort (Fetlar p), pottery'. Disc Exc Scot (1983), 21
- Hibbert, S (1822) A Description of the Shetland Islands. Constable and Co: Edinburgh
- Lamb, R G (1980) Iron Age promontory forts in the Northern Isles, Brit Archaeol Rep, BAR British Ser 79. BAR: Oxford
- Low, G (1879) A Tour through the Islands of Orkney and Schetland in 1774, in Anderson, J. Kirkwall
- MacKie, E W (2002) The roundhouses, brochs and wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c. 700BC - AD500: architecture and material culture Part 1 - The Orkney and Shetland Isles. BAR British Series 342: Oxford
- 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