Archaeology Notes

Event ID 643399

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU69SW 19 6286 9000.

(HU 6285 9003) Knowe of Heog (TI) Tumulus (OE)

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

A prominent hillock some 25' in diameter and 2' in height mostly turf-covered but, apparently, at least partly artificial.

There is no evidence of the period to which it belongs.

RCAHMS 1946. Visited 1930.

A few stones protrude through the turf on the summit of the rocky knoll The Heog, and could be either the remains of an artificial structure or natural.

Visited by OS(RL) 16 May 1969.