Muckle Head
Cairn (Prehistoric)(Possible), Marker Cairn (Post Medieval)
Site Name Muckle Head
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)(Possible), Marker Cairn (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 1205
Site Number HU46SE 2
NGR HU 4798 6053
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/1205
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Nesting
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
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.
Field Visit (14 August 1930)
Cairn (?), Muckle Head, North Nesting.
This site, on the crest of the hill above Quoys in North Nesting, was utilised as a survey station by the Ordnance Survey officers, and it is said that, if they did not actually construct the whole of the cairn, they added considerably to what already existed.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 14 August 1930.
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1903).
