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Little Brownie's Knowe

Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)

Site Name Little Brownie's Knowe

Classification Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 227

Site Number HU15NE 7

NGR HU 1737 5669

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Little Brownie's Knowe, HU15NE 7, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto
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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 7 1737 5669

(HU 1737 5670) Little Brownie's Knowe (NR)

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

A mound of burnt stones.

RCAHMS 1946, visited 1931.

A typically-shaped, turf-covered mound of burnt stones, 1.3m maximum height. Now cut in two by a modern stone field-wall.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (WDJ), 15 June 1968.

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Field Visit (15 June 1968)

A typically-shaped, turf-covered mound of burnt stones, 1.3m maximum height. Now cut in two by a modern stone field-wall.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 15 June 1968

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