Kingshouse
Building (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Kingshouse
Classification Building (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Seggie Burn
Canmore ID 1212
Site Number HU46SW 5
NGR HU 4355 6485
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/1212
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Nesting
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU46SW 5 4355 6485
(HU 4354 6487) Kingshouse (T.I.)
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1902)
There is a cairn of large stones at Kinghouse, approx. 3/4 mile N up Seggie Burn, where the burn makes a right angle turn to the W.
Lerwick Museum Records, P Moar 1968
The site referred to is the tumbled ruins of the rectangular building "Kingshouse" shown on O.S. 6" 1903.
Visited by OS (RL) 30 May 1968
An unroofed building named Kinghouse is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Orkney & Shetland (Shetland) 1880, sheet xxxvii), but it is not shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1973).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 30 April 2001
