Archaeology Notes

Event ID 641358

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU32NE 1 3717 2982, 3706 2975 and 3714 2984

There are three mounds of burnt stones about 50 yards south of the crofters houses at Symbister (HU 371 298).

RCAHMS 1946.

HU 3706 2975. A small, turf covered mound of burnt stones measuring 5.0m x 4.0m x 0.6m high.

HU 3714 2984. A turf covered mound of burnt stones measuring 8.0m x 7.0m x 0.5m high.

HU 3717 2982. A large mutilated, turf covered mound of burnt stones measuring 20.0m NW-SE by 14.0m transversely with an average height of 2.2m.

Visited by OS (WDJ), 15 May 1968.