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Papa Stour, Northbanks
Enclosure (Period Unassigned), House (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Papa Stour, Northbanks
Classification Enclosure (Period Unassigned), House (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Cuml
Canmore ID 243
Site Number HU16SE 10
NGR HU 1837 6098
NGR Description HU 1837 6098, HU 1842 6099 and HU 1844 6103
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/243
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Walls And Sandness
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU16SE 10 1837 6098, 1842 6099 and 1844 6103
See also HU16SE 13 and HU16SE 20.
('A': HU 1837 6098) Cuml (NR) (Site of)
('B': HU 1842 6099) Cuml (NR) (Site of)
OS 6"map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1903).
Two Enclosures:
'A' is so close to the sea-cliff that its sea-ward half has been eroded away. It consists of a roughly circular excavated hollow, about 36' 9" in diameter, the material from which has been piled up to form an enclosing mound.
'B' is better preserved, though it also is at the cliff edge. It is an excavated hollow D-shaped on plan and measuring about 27' 8" by 28' 8" within a mound about 3' high and varying in thickness from 8' to 12'. The interior is 1'6" below the level of the ground outside.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 1930.
The remains of two oval enclosures "A" and "B", formed by turf covered stone walls, generally as described by RCAHMS. The larger "B", measures c.16.0m by c.13.5m crest to crest with walls c.2.5m thick. Both have been eroded by the sea.
Also, at HU 1844 6103, a typical 'Neolitchic-Bronze Age House, c.10.0m by c.7.5m formed by a stony bank at the edges of which an outer wall face can be traced. The S end is flat, with an entrance, and suggestions of a forecourt outside. Several field walls immediately to the N may be associated, but they have been considerably mutilated by the building of several plantycrubs.
Enclosures "A" and "B" may be associated with the house.
Part Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (RL) 19 June 1968.
Scheduled with HU16SE 13 and HU16SE 20 as Northbanks, settlement and burnt mound, Papa Stour.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 6 November 1995.
