Archaeology Notes

Event ID 642688

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU38SW 1 3056 8342

(HU 3056 8343) Watch Tower (OE)

OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1900).

A possibly heel-shaped chambered cairn composed of large stones. It has been disturbed and the edge is now in- definite and overgrown with grass. The diameter was at least 45' and it rises to a height of 10'6", but appearances suggest that much of the material on the top has been heaped up at a comparatively recent date.

RCAHMS 1946, visited 1931; A S Henshall 1963.

Chambered cairn as described and planned by RCAHM.

Surveyed at 1/10,000 scale

Visited by OS (RL) 21st May 1969.