Foula, Crougar
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Foula, Crougar
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 199
Site Number HT94SE 2
NGR HT 9679 4030
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Walls And Sandness
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HT94SE 2 9679 4030.
(HT 9681 4027) Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1900)
It is extremely doubtful if a prehistoric cairn ever stood here, but the presence of a structure of some kind in the immediate vicinity is shown by the occurrence of pot-sherds and hammerstones. These, however, suggest a dwelling rather than a sepulchral monument.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 1930
Situated at the SE end of a natural NW-SE ridge is a turf covered scatter of stones of indeterminate size. Amid the stones are two small plantie-crubs and a short distance to the NE a larger stone-walled enclosure. Nothing was seen at the site to suggest anything other than a cairn and the location would appear to favour a cairn.
Visited by OS (W D J) 5 June 1968.
The Shetland's Past Project was begun in spring 2001, and aims to encourage and train heritage group members to undertake archaeological surveys of their local landscapes (DES 2002, 104-5).
HT 9680 4031 Circular drystone planticrub on top of small hill. Internal diameter 3.1m, walls 1.5m high
externally, 0.5m thick. Interior raised due to past successive cultivation, making interior height
of walls 0.8m. Now partially ruinous with E walling tumbled.
HT 9680 4030 Sub-circular drystone planticrub on top of small hill. Internal diameter 3.5m, walls 1.4m high,
0.6m thick. Ruinous E side in poor condition.
HT 9675 4028 Small oval quarry hole in association with several small cairns of quarried stone. Hole is 9 x 4m,
N-S orientation, 1m deep; 'entrance' facing W and downhill. Two small heaps of rock situated at
lower side. Stones quarried from this area were used for construction of the road, the Burns
House and Loch House. During quarrying for the Loch House in the 1940s, a hearthstone, ash
and hair were found.
HT 9681 4033 Small rectangular drystone yard; 9.4 x 5.4m, NW-SE orientation, 1.5m high. Possible entrance at
S end. Now ruinous. Built by I B S Holbourn to grow trees.
Archive deposited in Shetland SMR.
Sponsors: Shetland Amenity Trust, Foula Heritage.
C Christiansen 2003
