Archaeology Notes
Event ID 642348
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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HU37SW 1 3245 7124.
(HU 3244 7124) Cuml (OE)
O.S.6"map, Shetland, 2nd ed.,(1903).
A heel-shaped chambered cairn composed of large boulders and standing about 5' high above the surrounding peat. The facade measures more than 50' across, and from back to front the cairn measures 32'. The chamber was cleared by RCAHM in 1930.
A S Henshall 1963; RCAHMS 1946; T H Bryce 1940.
As described and planned by Henshall.
Visited by OS(WDJ) 27th May 1968.