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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 641588
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/641588
HU31SE 7 3998 1444.
A mound of burnt stones lies in a cultivated field on the north bank of the mill-stream, about 200 yards from the sea-shore, near Southvoe (HU 398 146).
RCAHMS 1946, visited 1935.
There are no definite traces of a burnt mound in this area, but at HU 3976 1447 in a pasture field, burnt stones are frequently ploughed up, and can still be seen on the ground surface. However, there are insufficient remains to enable positive indentification. At this spot about 45 years ago, Mr R Mouat ploughed up a slab-lined cist with cap-stone, 2 feet by 1 foot deep in which, he says, was the skeleton of a child and 'blue clay'.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (NKB) 23 May 1968; Information from Mr R Mouat, Southvoe, Dunrossness, Shetland.
