Ladie Hill
Burial Cairn (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Ladie Hill
Classification Burial Cairn (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Gallow Burn
Canmore ID 773
Site Number HU36NE 1
NGR HU 36295 68547
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/773
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Delting
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
Field Visit (11 July 1930)
Cairn, Ladie Hill. The cairn on the SW slope of Ladie Hill has proved a convenient quarry for building the adjoining ‘plantie-krubs’. It is roughly oval in shape, measuring about 44 ft from N to S by 35 ft from E. to W., but is reduced to its foundations, the outline being broken and hardly traceable. A small heap of stones lying about 50 yds farther W. may be the remains of a second cairn.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 11 July 1930.
O.S. 6"map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1905) 'Cuml'
Field Visit (6 June 1968)
HU36NE 1 3629 6853.
(HU 3627 6855) Cuml (OE)
O.S.6"map, Shetland, 2nd ed.,(1905).
A low amorphous green mound with a hollow centre. Possibly a cairn, but more likely to be an occupation site, with traces of an associated enclosure wall to the NE and W protruding through the peat.
There are four heaps of stones in the vicinity, none of which are 'cairns'. One heap appears to be the remains of a rectangular building, another, the remains of a small bothan-type structure.
Visited by OS(AA) 6th June 1968.
