Archaeology Notes

Event ID 641851

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU35SW 1 3121 5283

(HU 3122 5285) Cuml (OE)

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

A heel-shaped chambered cairn, on a small natural knoll, turf-covered and much robbed but still 3ft high in the region of the chamber.

Its edges merge into the sides of the knoll and are very indefinite but the measurement from front to back appears to be about 36' and the maximum width 50'. On the SSE are the remains of a facade, probably 32' wide and 10' deep. The area in front of the facade is covered with cairn material below the turf, and a number of lower set stones running from the SW in a rather irregular line seem to revet part of it.

RCAHMS 1946; A S Henshall 1963, visited 1957.

A heel-shaped chambered cairn as described and illustrated by Henshall. Immediately to the N is an enclosure, now ruinous, defined by a line of large boulders. Probably modern, but constructed from the cairn material.

Re-surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (AA), 18 June 1968.