Sumburgh

HU31SE 1 3922 1078.

Half of a probable late Bronze Age courtyard-type house, excavated by members of the Shetland Arch and Nat. Hist. Society, has yielded 'hundreds of slate tools, hammer stones, rough implements, quartz and flint scrapers' and fragments of two clay pots, since reconstructed, as well as a steatite cup, querns and grain rubbers. The pottery and slate tools and such of the house-plan as has been exposed all conform to late Bronze Age discoveries at Jarlshof (information from T Henderson, Lerwick Museum).

Aberdeen Press and Journal 3 October 1967

HU 3921 1078. Excavation, in progress, has revealed the south part of a circular hut, probably c.5.5m internal diameter, formed by a rubble wall, faced inside and outside and c.1.3m wide by 0.7m high. There is a well defined passage-entrance in the SSE from the outer ends of which extends a stone wall concentric with the hut, and abutting the SE side of the hut is a small paved area. The passage continues to the S and connects the hut with what appears to be a circular house with recesses, c.9.0m diameter.

Visited by OS (AA) 22 June 1968

Last year's excavaton has revealed a large square hearth in the centre of the circular house, and a little more of the walls. Another pot of Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age type was found and is in Shetland Museum. The buildings bear certain similarities to the Bronze Age ones at Jarlshof, but appear to be of better construction and more symetrical. They are possibly only part of a more extensive settlement. Excavations to continue this year.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (AA) 23 April 1969

There is no trace of this homestead; the area was bulldozed flat during alterations to the airfield.

Visited by OS field surveyor (JL) 1 October 1976