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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 641986

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/641986

HU25SW 17 2054 5050.

( HU 2052 5053 ) Lainwall Knowe (O.E.)

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

A mound of burnt stones.

RCAHMS 1946, visited 1931

A slightly curved, turf-covered mound of burnt stones about 17.0m long and about 1.7m high. Still known locally as 'Lainwall Knowe'.

Published survey (25") revised.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 18 June 1968

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