Archaeology Notes

Event ID 640992

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU24NW 4 2445 4953 and 2448 4955.

(HU 2444 4953 and 2447 4955) Tumuli (NR)

OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1900)

Two mounds of burnt stones.

RCAHMS 1946, visited 1931

Two burnt mounds. The easternmost was originally slightly crescentic, but about half the mound has been removed, leaving an arc of turf-covered burnt material c. 0.6m high. The other is greatly reduced and is c. 0.6m high.

Revised at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (R L) 15 June 1968