Forse Water
Burial Cairn (Bronze Age)
Site Name Forse Water
Classification Burial Cairn (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) South Houllan
Canmore ID 347
Site Number HU25NE 13
NGR HU 29736 55281
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/347
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Sandsting
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
Field Visit (14 July 1931)
Cairn, North End of Forse Water.
Near the N. end of Forse Water is an isolated hill, which rises very gradually from the valley on the E side to a height of about 100 ft. above the sea. On the top of this and some 150 yds SW of No. 1476 is a cairn having a diameter of about 50 ft. and mainly constructed of fairly large stones. It has been too much destroyed to permit of detailed description, but its prominent situation in the middle of a barren moor, coupled with the proximity at lower levels of several other cairns gives it some interest and significance.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 14 July 1931.
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1903)
Field Visit (13 June 1968)
HU25NE 13 2973 5528.
(HU 2974 5527) Cuml (OE)
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1900)
A mutilated cairn of bare stones as described by the RCAHM surmounted by a modern marker cairn. In the centre are 3 stones set in a rectangular shape, 0.8m. wide, the length of which cannot be measured due to tumble. Almost certainly a cist.
Visited by OS (N K B) 13 June 1968
