Archaeology Notes

Event ID 643465

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU56SW 1 5340 6202.

(HU 5438 6200) Cairn (OE)

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

The remains of a heel-shaped, chambered cairn, ('Ward of Symbister Ness') the plan of which can be traced by the remains of its facing wall. There is a considerable amount of cairn material outside the facing-wall, and a modern marker-cairn has been built at the centre, presumably over the position of the chamber.

A S Henshall 1963, visited 1959.

Cairn, c.0.7m high, as described and planned by Henshall.

Re-surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (RL) 22 May 1968.