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Latitude: 60.4238 / 60°25'25"N
Longitude: -1.4124 / 1°24'44"W
OS Eastings: 432455
OS Northings: 1171248
OS Grid: HU324712
Mapcode National: GBR Q1V5.ZH3
Mapcode Global: XHD1Y.08F9
Entry Name: Punds Water,chambered cairn 60m S of,Mangaster
Scheduled Date: 15 December 1953
Last Amended: 6 March 1993
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM2042
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: chambered cairn
Location: Northmaven
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: Shetland North
Traditional County: Shetland
The monument consists of a well-preserved prehistoric chambered
burial cairn.
The cairn is one of the best preserved in Shetland, and is of typical "heel-shaped" plan, with a SE-facing concave facade, 16m long and carefully built, from which a narrow passage leads into the inner chamber. This is trilobate in plan. A kerb of large boulders delimits the cairn on all sides except the SE. Cairn material has spilled out beyond the kerb.
The aea to be scheduled is circular, 40m in diameter and centred on
the chamber of the cairn, to include the cairn and an area around it
in which traces of activities associated with its construction and
use may survive. The area is marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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