Archaeology Notes

Event ID 641920

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU25SE 24 2972 5009.

(HU 2971 5012) Cuml (OE)

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

HU 295 500. Calder lists this site as a cairn with a cist and says that it is actually a short distance NE of the position described by

RCAHM.

C S T Calder 1965.

An amorphous scatter of stones, some earth fast, but unlike the description by RCAHMS. On the S side are three stones on edge, representing three sides of a cist orientated NE-SW, the SW slab being missing. It measures 1.7m by 1.2m. Calder's directions are wrong, and there is no feature in the area resembling RCAHMS description.

Visited by OS(RL) 13th June 1968.