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Unst, Skaw
Structure (Period Unassigned), Unidentified Pottery (Iron Age)
Site Name Unst, Skaw
Classification Structure (Period Unassigned), Unidentified Pottery (Iron Age)
Canmore ID 142
Site Number HP61NE 1
NGR HP 6600 1655
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/142
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Unst
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HP61NE 1 6600 1655
(HP 660 165) Investigation of a peat ash midden being cut into by the sea at Skaw revealed fragments of pottery of Iron Age character.
A Small 1965.
No trace of the midden, but at HP 6602 1657 about 16.0m of rough dry stone walling has been exposed in the cliff face, suggesting an occupation site. According to local information this is where the pottery was found.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS(AA) 26th March 1969.
HP 660 166 Iron Age artefacts from eroding site at N end of beach: anvil stone (beach boulder with pecked hollow), and pottery body sherd, steatite grit. ARC 1997.113-114.
Shetland Museum 1997
