Field Visit
Date 29 July 1930
Event ID 1127280
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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Cairn, Ruff Loch. One of the most interesting sites in West Burra is that of a very much dilapidated cairn (Fig. 583), which lies on the edge of the precipice known as The Ill Craig at the N end of Ruff Loch. The W segment of the construction has been carried away by a fall of the cliff face. What remains shows a marginal setting, carefully arranged in a curved formation and suggesting a one-time diameter of about 25 ft . At least eleven of these marginal stones are still in their original positions, but all the other features of the cairn have been destroyed. Some fragments of pottery, reddish in colour and close and hard baked in texture, were picked up on the site at the time of visit. Stone axes have also been found in the immediate vicinity, but there is no necessary association between them and the cairn.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 29 July 1930.
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed. (1903) (unnoted).
