Trolligarts
Chambered Cairn (Prehistoric), Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Trolligarts
Classification Chambered Cairn (Prehistoric), Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 450
Site Number HU25SW 30
NGR HU 24278 52490
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/450
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Walls And Sandness
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU25SW 30 2433 5247.
An amorphous mound of bare stones about 10.0m in diameter. No features to enable clarification.
Visited by OS 18 June 1968 .
Scheduled with HU25SW 1 and HU25SW 4 as Trolligarts, chambered cairn, homestead and field system.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 22 January 1993.
Field Visit
This heavily disturbed chambered cairn, which is situated on a slight rise in rough peaty moorland about 50m NE of the minor road leading N from the A971 to Newton, measures 14.5m in diameter and 0.8m high. There are traces of a kerb, especially on the N, while a number of boulders suggest the presence of an internal chamber.
Some of the cairn material has been robbed to construct a roughly oval enclosure immediately E of the cairn. This measures 30m from NW to SE by 25m transversely within collapsed rubble walls spread up to 2m thick.
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 12 June 2010.
