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Latitude: 60.2018 / 60°12'6"N
Longitude: -1.2939 / 1°17'38"W
OS Eastings: 439243
OS Northings: 1146592
OS Grid: HU392465
Mapcode National: GBR R14S.5SM
Mapcode Global: XHD2Y.KVD0
Entry Name: Whiteness Junction,burnt mound 150m W of Stebbligrind
Scheduled Date: 6 August 1993
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5720
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: burnt mound
Location: Tingwall
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: Shetland West
Traditional County: Shetland
The monument consists of a small burnt mound, a prehistoric cooking place. The mound lies just to the W of the public road to South Whiteness. It is approximately 1m high and 7m across, and stands in a marshy area of ground.
The area to be scheduled is 20m square, aligned parallel to the road, and is bounded on the E by the roadside fence, which is itself excluded from scheduling. The area is marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a small undisturbed burnt mound, which has the potential, through excavation and analysis, to provide information about this widespread but poorly understood category of monument, and thus about Bronze Age domestic and social organisation.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as HU 34 NE 13.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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