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Latitude: 60.3795 / 60°22'46"N
Longitude: -1.3915 / 1°23'29"W
OS Eastings: 433651
OS Northings: 1166327
OS Grid: HU336663
Mapcode National: GBR Q1X9.H34
Mapcode Global: XHD24.8CVR
Entry Name: Houll,house 90m SW of,Roe Sound
Scheduled Date: 20 August 1974
Last Amended: 22 January 1992
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM3479
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: house
Location: Delting
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: Shetland North
Traditional County: Shetland
The monument consists of the substantial remains of a prehistoric house.
The house survives as an oval bank of rubble, with a few larger stones protruding. The plan has been approximately oval, and the house is a very large one, 20m x 24m overall with a central area about 15m x 10m, with traces of wall recesses. The entrance may have been from the SE. On the S side of the house is a small enclosure, and the wall of this has been encroached upon by a recent boat noust (shelter) and a cist-like construction, perhaps for soaking bait.
The area to be scheduled is a promontory, bounded on all except the N side by the sea, and on the N side by a curved line drawn to pass 10m beyond the most northerly point of the house.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as an unexcavated, and particularly substantial, example of a prehistoric house, which by its location may relate rather more than is normal for this class to exploitation of the marine environment. It is highly likely that important archaeological deposits will be preserved both within and below the foundations of the house.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS record the site as HU36NW 3.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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