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Latitude: 60.2535 / 60°15'12"N
Longitude: -1.6201 / 1°37'12"W
OS Eastings: 421130
OS Northings: 1152197
OS Grid: HU211521
Mapcode National: GBR Q1CM.SHY
Mapcode Global: XHD2M.9J4W
Entry Name: Stourbrough Hill,cairn 170m S of summit
Scheduled Date: 22 January 1993
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5544
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: Walls and Sandness
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: Shetland West
Traditional County: Shetland
The monument consists of a large prehistoric cairn situated on the S flank of Stourbrough Hill.
The cairn is slightly disturbed, and built of large boulders. It measure approximately 11m E-W by 8m N-S, and stands 1m high, although its dimensions are obscured by deep peat which laps up against it. The cairn clearly pre-dates the growth of the peat.
The area to be scheduled is an irregular quadrilateral, bounded on the NW and NE by a modern fence (which is itself excluded from the scheduling), and measuring a maximum of 60m NE-SW by 40m NW-SE, as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a relatively substantial cairn, probably a burial cairn, overlooking an area with extensive prehistoric settlement evidence. The cairn is featureless, but only slightly disturbed, and may contain within and below its structure evidence for prehistoric burial practices and contemporary economy, environment and land-use.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as HU25SW 9.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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