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Latitude: 60.2957 / 60°17'44"N
Longitude: -1.4338 / 1°26'1"W
OS Eastings: 431399
OS Northings: 1156971
OS Grid: HU313569
Mapcode National: GBR Q1TJ.FQ2
Mapcode Global: XHD2H.QHM0
Entry Name: Newhouse,homestead and field system 200m S of
Scheduled Date: 9 December 1992
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5500
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: field or field system
Location: Sandsting
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: Shetland West
Traditional County: Shetland
The monument consists of the remains of a small prehistoric farm, represented by the foundations of one house and remains of field
walls.
The house survives as an oval foundation of large stones, some 10.0m by 7.5m, with its entrance facing NE and looking downslope. Outside the entrance is a line of large boulders, perhaps a windbreak for the door. A small oval field, bounded by a boulder wall, lies 25m to the NE, and there are other stretches of field walling visible below the peat to the N and W.
The area to be scheduled is an irregular oval, cut by the public road, which is excluded, together with its verges and fences. The modern fence which forms a small part of the NE boundary is also excluded from scheduling. The area to be scheduled is marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as an unusually small example of a single-house prehistoric farming settlement in a rather unpromising north-east facing location. The location and scale of the fields suggests that this settlement was at the lower end of economic viability, and it provides an interesting comparison to set alongside the much more extensive (and by inference more successful) settlements in West Mainland Shetland, such as Scord of Brouster, Pinhoulland or Ness of Guting.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as HU35NW 5.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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