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Vivilie Loch
Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Site Name Vivilie Loch
Classification Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Alternative Name(s) Ward Of Culswick
Canmore ID 274
Site Number HU24NE 1
NGR HU 26217 46122
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/274
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Sandsting
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU24NE 1 2621 4613.
(HU 2620 4613) Tuml (NR)
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1900)
A much-robbed round or heel-shaped chambered cairn. The robbing has been most severe at the edges, so that there is now no trace of a kerb or facade, and there remains only an untidy heap of large, irregular blocks, about 3' high at the centre and spread over an area about 40' in diameter.
A S Henshall 1963, visited 1957.
Chambered cairn as described and planned by Henshall.
Visited by OS (R L) 14 June 1968.
Field Visit (25 June 1931)
Heel-shaped Cairn, Vivilie Loch, Ward of. Culswick.
A cairn of large stones stands on the lower W. slopes of the Ward of Culswick, about 100 yds. N. of Vivilie Loch. Its original diameter was probably about 33 ft. and, though the outline has been obliterated, the central chamber and the entrance-passage are still clearly defined. The latter (Fig. 598), which runs in a north-westerly direction for a distance of 7 or 8 ft., varies in width from 2 ft. 3 in. at the outside to 1 ft. 7 in. at the inner end. The chamber (Fig. 623), of an irregular trefoil shape and now without a roof, measures roughly 7 ft. 9 in. by 6 ft. 9 in. The monument is clearly the remnant of a cairn of the" heel-shaped" type with a curved frontal facade and trefoil-shaped chamber.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 25 June 1931.
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1900)
Measured Survey (1931)
A measured sketch by RCAHMS of the heel-shaped cairn at Vivilie Loch taken c.1931 was redrawn in ink and published at a reduced size (RCAHMS 1946, fig. 623).
