Sulma Water
House (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Sulma Water
Classification House (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Hurdi Field
Canmore ID 365
Site Number HU25NE 3
NGR HU 25705 55217
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/365
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Sandsting
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU25NE 3 2570 5521.
(HU 2568 5522) Cuml (NR)
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1900)
A chambered structure, the plan of which was recovered by Calder in 1957, (Calder 1965) assisted by the late L G Scott and his daughter, Mrs A Robertson. Calder thought that this was a chambered cairn, but Miss Henshall who saw it in 1957 thinks it is a house, related in plan to the series of Neolithic - Late Bronze Age houses already known in Shetland. (Henshall 1972, 592)
RCAHMS 1946, visited 1931
A typical Neolithic/Bronze Age homestead as illustrated by Calder. A field wall leads from it to the loch shore and in the vicinity are ruined walls and clearance heaps of a small associated field system.
Visited by OS (N K B) 16 June 1968
Field Visit (24 June 1931)
Cairn, Sulma Water.
Like so many others, this cairn, which stands on the hillside above the W shore of Sulma Water at a distance of about 50 yds from the shore of the loch, has had its outline defined by a circular setting of large stones. It is greatly dilapidated and its limits are now somewhat indefinite. Probably, however, it has been about 33 ft in diameter. At the SE there appears to be evidence of a narrow passage, 6 ft. long and 3 ft. wide at the entrance, but narrowing to 21 in. wide at the inner end.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 24 June 1931.
O.S.6"map, Shetland, (1903) 'Cuml'.
Field Visit (16 June 1968)
HU25NE 3 2570 5521.
A typical Neolithic/Bronze Age homestead as illustrated by Calder (1965, fig. 7). A field wall leads from it to the loch shore and in the vicinity are ruined walls and clearance heaps of a small associated field system.
Visited by OS (N K B) 16 June 1968
