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Latitude: 60.1879 / 60°11'16"N
Longitude: -1.4501 / 1°27'0"W
OS Eastings: 430599
OS Northings: 1144957
OS Grid: HU305449
Mapcode National: GBR Q1ST.67V
Mapcode Global: XHD32.J614
Entry Name: Swart-Houll,chambered cairn 330m NE of
Scheduled Date: 19 July 1993
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5700
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: chambered cairn
Location: Sandsting
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: Shetland West
Traditional County: Shetland
The monument consists of the remains of a prehistoric chambered burial cairn.
The cairn stands on a gentle rise on moorland. It consists of a large mound about 8.5m across, largely turf-covered except for the centre, where large blocks define a small sub-rectangular chamber with an entrance from the SE. One large stone at the junction of entrance passage and chamber is almost certainly a fallen lintel.
The area to be scheduled is circular, 30m across, to include the cairn and an area around it in which evidence of activities relating to its construction and use may survive, as shown in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a prehistoric burial cairn which, although robbed, may yet contain information, accessible to excavation and analysis, about prehistoric burial practices and ritual and, from soils buried below the cairn, about contemporary land-use and environmental conditions.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as HU 34 SW 1.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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