Archaeology Notes

Event ID 641666

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU25SE 30 2559 5359.

(HU 2560 5351) Cuml (OE)

O.S.6"map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1903).

A cairn of considerable size which has been demolished and many of its stones removed, so that it is now impossible to determine its original shape or extent.

RCAHMS 1946. Visited 1931.

All that remains of this alleged cairn is an amorphous scatter of stones within a modern enclosure situated on a shelf on an E slope. No identifiable features are visible. The proximity of a probably associated field enclosure and clearance heaps, and the situation on a level platform suggest a homestead rather than a cairn.

Visited by OS(NKB) 16th June 1968.