Easter Skeld, 'swart-houll'
Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Site Name Easter Skeld, 'swart-houll'
Classification Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Canmore ID 716
Site Number HU34SW 1
NGR HU 30597 44955
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Sandsting
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU34SW 1 3060 4495.
(HU 3059 4496) Tuml (OE)
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed. (1903)
A round or heel-shaped chambered cairn built on a knoll or outcrop.
The cairn itself is almost entirely robbed away, but a number of large irregular blocks remain scattered over an area of about 40' in diameter. The edge is now very indefinite and there are no convincing indications of a kerb.
A S Henshall 1963; RCAHMS 1946
Chambered Cairn, generally as described and planned by Henshall except that the apparent diameter is c.8.5m.
urveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS(RL) 10 June 1968
Field Visit (22 June 1931)
Cairn, Swart-houll, Easter Skeld.
No over-all dimensions can be stated for the very much dilapidated cairn which stands on the hilltop about 230 yds. E of Swart-houll in Easter Skeld, but the debris is scattered over an area30 ft. in diameter. Near the centre there has been a chamber, which seems to have measured about 6 ft. 2 in. long by 4 ft. 10 in. broad, and to have been entered by a passage 2 ft. 9 in.wide.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 22 June 1931.
O.S.6"map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1903)
