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Gruting
Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Site Name Gruting
Classification Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 281
Site Number HU24NE 16
NGR HU 27873 49285
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/281
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Sandsting
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU24NE 16 2787 4929.
(HU 2786 4930) Tumulus (NR)
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1903)
A mound of burnt stones.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 1931
A burnt mound comprising two separate mounds. The easterly one is about 1.5m high, the other is about 1.0m high.
Visited by OS (RL) 14 June 1968
Field Visit (7 July 1931)
Gruting.
There a three mounds of burnt stones, 150 to 200 yds from the house known as Sea View.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 7 July 1931.
(1, 2 'Tumulus'; 3, unnoted) OS 6" inch map
Field Visit (14 June 1968)
A burnt mound comprising two separate mounds. The easterly one is about 1.5m high, the other is about 1.0m high.
Visited by OS (RL) 14 June 1968
Field Visit (9 June 2010)
This burnt mound, which is situated in a field of pasture 90m SSE of Seaview (formerly Gardins), measures about 15m from NE to SW by 9.5m transversely and up to 1m in height, and comprises two grass-grown heaps of shattered stone with a central groove running between them from NW to SE.
Visited by RCAHMS (GB) 9 June 2010.
