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Latitude: 60.4203 / 60°25'13"N
Longitude: -1.4078 / 1°24'28"W
OS Eastings: 432710
OS Northings: 1170866
OS Grid: HU327708
Mapcode National: GBR Q1W6.7LS
Mapcode Global: XHD1Y.2B8Z
Entry Name: Mangaster,chambered cairn 270m W of
Scheduled Date: 20 December 1974
Last Amended: 20 November 1992
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM3566
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 the remains of a prehistoric chambered burial cairn.
The cairn is much reduced, but sufficient remains to show it to be of typical Shetland "heel-shaped" plan, with an outer kerb of large boulders and, on the SE side, a well-built concave facade, from the centre of which a narrow passage gives access to a small burial chamber. The cairn measures about 7m NW-SE by 6m NE-SW.
The area to be scheduled is circular, 30m in diameter and centred on the chamber of the cairn, to include the cairn and an area around it in which evidence relating to its construction and use may survive.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance for the evidence it contains, which would be accessible to excavation, for the development of Neolithic burial practices. In addition, the cairn may seal beneath it evidence, accessible to excavation and analysis, for contemporary land-use.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as HU37SW 2.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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