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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 642621

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU39SE 5 3778 9448.

(Area: HU 377 943) The most extensive group of steatite workings on Shetland occurs on a precipitous outcrop close to the sea at Cleber Geos, on the east side of the Isle of Fethaland. Though they cannot be dated, there are plentiful traces of the cutting of urns, bowls and vessels of all sorts.

RCAHMS 1946, visited 1931

Centred at HU 3780 9450, old steatite workings as described.

Visited by OS(RL) 17 May 1969

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