Stany Fields
Cairn (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Planticrub (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Stany Fields
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Planticrub (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 190410
Site Number HU25SE 66
NGR HU 25677 50328
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/190410
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Walls And Sandness
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU25SE 66 2568 5033
One unroofed structure is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Orkney & Shetland (Shetland) 1882, sheet xlvi) and on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1973).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 22 May 2001
Field Visit (14 June 2010)
A planticrub, a possible cairn that partly underlies it and an enclosure which they both stand within are situated on the summit of a prominent rise in undulating moorland. Trapezoidal on plan, the planticrub measures about 5.4m from NNW to SSE by up to 4.5m transversely over a drystone rubble wall standing 1.7m high. Immediately to its E is an arcing setting of eight boulders which may represent the SE edge of a cairn measuring between 6m and 8m in diameter, the W side of which is overlain by the planticrub. The enclosure, which is defined by a spread of rubble up to about 3m in thickness and 0.5m in height, is probably roughly oval on plan, the wall being traceable either as a bare spread of stones or as a grass-grown feature on the N, W and S. Its line, however, is difficult to trace on the E.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 14 June 2010.
