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Jamie Cheyne's Loch
Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Jamie Cheyne's Loch
Classification Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Loch Of Ustaness
Canmore ID 711
Site Number HU34SE 2
NGR HU 3987 4278
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/711
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Tingwall
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU34SE 2 3987 4278
(HU 399 428) The remains of a house, which seems as old as but differs on plan from other Neolithic houses, lies on higher ground about 100 yds. from the S end of Loch of Ustaness.
'It is deeply covered in peat and heather but where the heather has been burnt off large stones and one or two lengths of curved inner faces of masonry are revealed in what appears to be a thick dry-built stone wall. This house.... comprises two chambers on a line lying E-W. At the S end of the mutual partition a gap flanked by a large stone, suggested a communicating door, and the entrance to the house probably led in through the E end of the structure to the smaller of the chambers.
From a distance of 25ft E of the building a dyke-foundation ran in a eccentric circle to converge on a point against the west wall of the house. Around this again the remains of another dyke encircled the whole at a varying distance of 110ft at most.
C S T Calder 1958.
At HU 3985 4277 a Neolithic/Bronze Age homestead, situated on a rise, and comprising a house, measuring 6.5m in diameter, with a small annexe connected by a short passage. Undergrowth covers what appears to be a fallen lintel stone over the passage. Within the enclosure there is evidence of cleared ground.
Surveyed at 6".
Visited by OS (RL), 4 May 1968.
