Archaeology Notes

Event ID 642544

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU46SE 2 4798 6053.

(HU 4796 6055) Cairn (OE)

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

A cairn of oblong blocks and stones about 20ft in diameter.

Name Book 1878.

The mutilated remains of a cairn, 10.0m. in diameter and 0.5m high, on a hill summit.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (NKB) 6 May 1968.

50m NE of the above, is a cairn completely overgrown, and measuring c.10 x 8m. Of dubious character, it may be a collapsed settlement site.

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