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Latitude: 60.3336 / 60°20'0"N
Longitude: -1.677 / 1°40'37"W
OS Eastings: 417936
OS Northings: 1161104
OS Grid: HU179611
Mapcode National: GBR Q16F.BCM
Mapcode Global: XHBVG.KJ0G
Entry Name: The Dale,settlement,field system and cairn,Papa Stour
Scheduled Date: 6 November 1995
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM6243
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement; Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncerta
Location: Walls and Sandness
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: Shetland West
Traditional County: Shetland
The monument consists of an extensive field system with a settlement site and a burial cairn.
The field system, composed of small fields marked by low banks and terraces, and set with cairns of field-cleared stones, lies on the S side of the Dale (or Daal). At its N end is a settlement, marked by a circular house foundation about 8.5m across, with an oval annexe of slightly smaller size attached to the NE. At the SW edge of the field system, which corresponds to the crest of the gentle slope, is a burial cairn, an oval stone mound some 8m by 10m and 0.9m high.
The area to be scheduled is irregular on plan, measuring a maximum of 240m NNW-SSE by 160m, to include the settlement, burial cairn and the best-preserved part of the field system within which they are set. This area is marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a fine example of a prehistoric farming settlement with associated burial cairn. It has the potential to provide information about prehistoric farming practices and domestic economy, and about contemporary burial rites.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as HU 16 SE 5 & 14.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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