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Latitude: 60.2236 / 60°13'24"N
Longitude: -1.5509 / 1°33'3"W
OS Eastings: 424980
OS Northings: 1148891
OS Grid: HU249488
Mapcode National: GBR Q1JQ.82T
Mapcode Global: XHD2V.6969
Entry Name: The Houb,burnt mound 150m NE of,Grunnavoe
Scheduled Date: 29 January 1993
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5552
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: burnt mound
Location: Walls and Sandness
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: Shetland West
Traditional County: Shetland
The monument is a burnt mound, a prehistoric cooking place.
The burnt mound consists of a crescentic heap of small fire-reddened and cracked stones, measuring some 10m in overall diameter. The maximum height is 1.2m. The mound stands in a rather boggy hollow beside a stream linking Loch of Grunnavoe to the sea.
The area to be scheduled is circular, 30m in diameter centred on the mound, to include the mound and an area around in which traces of its construction and use may survive, as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a fine field monument, a good example of a simple burnt mound of putative Bronze Age date. Excavation may reveal important information about the formation of such sites and their place in contemporary society.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as HU24NW 26.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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