Field Visit
Date 10 July 1931
Event ID 1131067
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1131067
Heel-shaped Cairn, near Turdale Water.
This monument, situated on the top of Ara Clett and about a quarter of a mile to the E. of Turdale Water, is now represented by a cairn of stones which is covered for the most part with turf. An excavation on the crest has, however, revealed a chamber, so much destroyed and filled with debris that its true outline cannot be determined nor any exact measurements given. On the S.W. side three stones set edge to edge, with a fourth that is not earth-fast, apparently represent one end of a concave facade, while two others, placed in alinement in front of the chamber at a distance of 15 ft., may indicate the outer end of a passage of approach. The interior has a recess on each side of the entrance, and thus resembles the trefoil-shaped chambers which appear to be characteristic of the "heel-shaped" type of cairn.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 10 July 1931.
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1903).
