Ness Of Noonsbrough
Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Site Name Ness Of Noonsbrough
Classification Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Alternative Name(s) North Ward
Canmore ID 354
Site Number HU25NE 2
NGR HU 29105 57938
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/354
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Sandsting
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU25NE 2 2910 5794.
(HU 2909 5794) Watch Tower (OE) (Site of)
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1903)
A chambered cairn, heel-shaped, surmounted by a modern dry-built watch-tower, which obscures the chamber.
Only about 2' of the cairn material remains, but a double kerb can be traced round the cairn which measures about 25' NW - SE by about 30' NE-SW. The kerb-stones project up to about 1' 6" above the turf which covers the site.
A S Henshall 1963, visited 1957.
A heel-shaped, chambered cairn as described and illustrated by Henshall.
Re-surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 12 June 1968.
Scheduled as North Ward, chambered cairn, Noonsborough.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 8 February 1993.
Field Visit (14 June 1931)
Cairn, North Ward, Ness of Nounsbrough.
On the highest part of the Ness, looking northwards over the Voe of Clousta to the island of Vementry, is a denuded cairn, above which a small dry-built modern tower has been erected. The original construction has apparently had a diameter of about 30 ft., and on the SE, beneath the modern tower, there are some slight indications that it has contained a chamber.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 14 July 1931.
O.S.6"map, Shetland, (1903).
