Laidie Hill
Burial Cairn (Bronze Age)
Site Name Laidie Hill
Classification Burial Cairn (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 294
Site Number HU24NE 7
NGR HU 29466 49508
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/294
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Sandsting
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
Field Visit (7 July 1931)
Cairn, Laidie Hill,
Of the ‘cuml’, which the O.S. map shows on the highest part of Laidie Hill, all that is now to be seen is an uncovered cist, sunk some way into the ground. It is formed of four undressed slabs of native rock set on edge, and is 4 ft. 1 in. long by 2 ft.4 in. wide, the major axis lying N.N.E. and S.S.W. At the date of visit it was almost full of earth that had been washed into it. The presence of a ‘plantie-krub’ hard by probably accounts for the destruction of the body of the cairn.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 7 July 1931
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1903)
Field Visit (13 June 1968)
HU24NE 7 2946 4950.
(HU 2945 4952) Cuml (NR)
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1903)
Remains of a cairn with cist, generally as described by RCAHMS. Cairn almost entirely destroyed. The cist is on the NE side of the plantie-crub.
Visited by OS (RL) 13 June 1968
