West Burra Survey

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Date April 1977

Event ID 552351

Category Project

Type Project

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Survey undertaken by Gordon Parry of West Burra, Shetland. Part of the Tougs project and excavations.

Event	Type	Subtype	Notes	Date
552364	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	Situated c 120m north east of Setter croft on the edge of a good pocket of agricultural land. The land is flat and well sheltered with rising ground on all but the north side; a stream flows c.4m away from the east of the mound. The mound is c.6.5m long, c.4.5m wide, over 1m in height and vaguely crescentic with horns facing west. [...]	1977
552376	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	Located c.200m south along the coast from Sunnybank on a sheltered flat piece of ground about 25m from Long Sound. A small stream runs past the mound on its southern side. Parry describes the mound as being large in size and crescent shaped but there is neither a plan or dimensions in his surviving manuscript. [...]	1977
552363	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	There are several interesting features outside the enclosure ( ?HU33NE 23). About 12m to the west is a shallow bank of earth and stones which runs south east-north west for a distance of c.5m before merging with a mound of earth and stones c.5m in diameter and c.0.6m high. c.26m north east of these and c.10m from the enclosure wall is a crescent shaped mound with horns to the south west which measures c.5 by 4m; this appears to consist at least partly of burnt stone. On a craggy outcrop c.50m north east of the enclosure there is a circle of orthostats c.7 to 18m in diameter which may have been a small enclosure. [...]	1977