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Papa Stour, Muckle Heogan

Mound (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Papa Stour, Muckle Heogan

Classification Mound (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 210

Site Number HU15NE 13

NGR HU 1826 5992

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Shetland Islands
  • Parish Walls And Sandness
  • Former Region Shetland Islands Area
  • Former District Shetland
  • Former County Shetland

Archaeology Notes

HU15NE 13 1826 5992.

(HU 1824 5993) Muckle Heogan (NR)

OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1903)

An irregular, crescent-shaped enclosure on the summit of rising ground. It consists of a continuous bank of earth and small stones, about 6' wide and 3' above the ground outside but rather less above the solum of the interior. It measures 69' N-S and 73' E-W over the bank. Three later hollows have been formed in its north side.

RCAHMS 1946, visited 1930

This does not appear to be an enclosure but a much robbed turf-covered mound of earth and small stones. The interior of the mound has been removed leaving a stony 'scarp-cum-bank' 0.5m average height round the perimeter. The position of the mound, on the summit of a hill, does not suggest a burnt mound.

Resurveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 19 June 1968.

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