Archaeology Notes

Event ID 642476

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU56NE 7 5517 6538

HU 551 654, A Neolithic house. 'The Cumble', lies just beyond the neck of Sutherness near the north shore of the South Voe of Brough. Much peat-ash is observable in the structure and rude stone-implements are plentiful on the site. Dish-querns, evidently taken from the building, are built into a dyke nearby.

C S T Calder 1963

At HU 5515 6536, 'The Cumble', the partial remains of a small kite-shaped enclosure, approximately 24.0m long by perhaps 12.0m wide formed by a turf-covered stony bank, about 0.6m maximum height and about 2.0m

average width. The 'house' referred to by Calder may have been inside the N end where a few stones protrude from the turf, but the remains are very indeterminate. Possibly a homestead.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (RL), 29 May 1968

A Neolithic/Bronze Age house much mutilated, has a concrete chicken loop set into its E side. It remains as a hollow surrounded by a bank.

Information from P Ashmore IAM (Historic Scotland) 20 December 1973.