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Wards Of Seli Voe
Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Wards Of Seli Voe
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Setter, Seli Voe
Canmore ID 293
Site Number HU24NE 6
NGR HU 29214 47737
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/293
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Sandsting
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU24NE 6 2922 4774
(HU 2923 4775) Cuml (NR)
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1903)
The site of a cairn which may originally have had a diameter of about 30'. Most of the scanty remains are now hidden by a thin covering of turf, but near the centre a cist, which measures about 4'6" by 2'6", can be seen lying with its major axis NE - SW.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 1931
The remains of a heel-shaped cairn. Two or three stones in the SE and one large earth fast stone in the S corner are suggestive of a slightly concave facade. The NE corner cannot be determined but the facade had probably measured approx. 11.0m. Several set stones around the NW perimeter indicate a measurement from facade to back of cairn of 7.2 metres.
The alleged cist apears to be a hollow between two pieces of outcrop rock and no definite indication of a cist or chamber can be traced.
Visited by OS (RL) 17 June 1968
Scheduled as Setter, chambered cairn, Seli Voe.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 6 August 1993.
Field Visit (7 July 1931)
Cairn, Wards of Seli Voe.
About 330 yds. S. of the house at Setter, and overlooking Seli Voe, the top of a rocky knoll on the same hillside as Nos. 1429 and 1431 has been the site of a cairn which may originally have had a diameter of about 30 ft. Most of the scanty remains are now hidden by a thin covering of turf, but near the centre a cist, which measures about 4 ft. 6 in. by 2 ft. 6 in, can be seen lying with its major axis N.E. and SW.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 7 July 1931.
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1903)
