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Ness Of Gruting

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Burnt Mound (Prehistoric), Field System (Period Unassigned), Settlement (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Ness Of Gruting

Classification Burnt Mound (Prehistoric), Field System (Period Unassigned), Settlement (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 278

Site Number HU24NE 13

NGR HU 277 484

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/278

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Oblique aerial view of the remains of the buildings, enclosure, lazy beds, settlement and field-system, taken from the ESE.
Oblique aerial view of the remains of the buildings, enclosure, lazy beds, settlement and field-system, taken from the ESE.Oblique aerial photograph.View of house II Calder excavations c1953Ness Of Gruting, HU24NE 13, Ordnance Survey index card, page number 2, VersoOblique aerial photograph.Oblique aerial photograph.Ness Of Gruting, HU24NE 13, Ordnance Survey index card, page number 2, VersoOblique aerial view of Ness of GruntingView of house II Calder excavations c1953Oblique aerial view of Ness of GruntingOblique aerial view of Ness of GruntingOblique aerial view of the remains of the settlement field-system, buildings, enclosure and lazy beds, taken from the NNE.Ness Of Gruting, HU24NE 13, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoOblique aerial view centred on the remains of the settlement and field-system, with the remains of the buildings and enclosure adjacent, taken from the SSW.Oblique aerial photograph.Oblique aerial photograph.Ness Of Gruting, HU24NE 13, Ordnance Survey index card, page number 1, RectoOblique aerial photograph.Ness Of Gruting, HU24NE 13, Ordnance Survey index card, page number 1, Recto

Administrative Areas

  • Council Shetland Islands
  • Parish Sandsting
  • Former Region Shetland Islands Area
  • Former District Shetland
  • Former County Shetland

Archaeology Notes

HU24NE 13 277 484

See also:

HU24NE 12.

HU24NE 60 HU 2782 4830 Farmstead (Possible)

(HU 277 484). The remains of three Neolithic/Bronze Age houses (Houses II, III and IV- see fig. 13) lie to the west of House I (HU24NE12) on the Ness of Gruting. They are unexcavated but the largest (IV) measured 50ft by 39ft overall. A plantie-crub overlays House III.

A field system comprising clearance-heaps, enclosures, and fields (some of which are terraced and limited by heavy scarps, possibly stone-revetted, occasionally outlined by dykes, surrounds Houses II and III.

Unfinished stone implements suggested there had been a local workshop about 20 yds SW of House III and potsherds and stone implements from House III have been donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS).

C S T Calder 1958

Houses II (HU 2778 4836 ) and III (HU 2769 4834) and the associated field system are as described by Calder. "House IV", however, at HU 2768 4845, has the appearance of a crescentic mound containing much burnt material and is probably a burnt mound overlying an earlier structure of unknown use.

Houses surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (RL) 13 June 1968

Scheduled with HU24NE 12 as Ness of Gruting, burnt mound, farmsteads and field systems.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 8 February 1993.

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Field Visit (13 June 1968)

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Revision Programme

Houses II (HU 2778 4836 ) and III (HU 2769 4834) and the associated field system are as described by Calder. "House IV", however, at HU 2768 4845, has the appearance of a crescentic mound containing much burnt material and is probably a burnt mound overlying an earlier structure of unknown use.

Houses surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (RL) 13 June 1968

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Aerial Photography (October 1973)

Oblique aerial photographs taken by John Dewar in 1973.

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