Esha Ness
Knife(S) (Stone)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Esha Ness
Classification Knife(S) (Stone)(Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Eshaness
Canmore ID 486
Site Number HU27NW 10
NGR HU 22 78
NGR Description HU c. 22 78
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Northmavine
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU27NW 10 c. 22 78.
A hoard of eleven discoidal knives of porphyritic stone, was found in making a road at Eshaness in 1900, c 4 ft below the surface, 9" deep in the gravelly subsoil beneath peat.
There was no trace of any building.
R Munro 1906
All the knives are now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS), seven of them donated by Haldane (R C Haldane, Lochend, Ollaberry; letter dated 24 March 1905) in 1906 and the others by James M. Goudie, Lerwick in 1911.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1911
OS 6" map, Shetland, 1st ed. (1880) (surveyed 1878)
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed. (1902) (surveyed 1900)
OS 1" map, Shetland (1961)
The main road to Stennes (HU 21 77) was under construction in 1900, so it is presumably on the line of this that the hoard was found.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
No further information.
Visited by OS (NKB) 28 April 1969.
