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Latitude: 60.2193 / 60°13'9"N
Longitude: -1.6234 / 1°37'24"W
OS Eastings: 420965
OS Northings: 1148385
OS Grid: HU209483
Mapcode National: GBR Q1BQ.QVR
Mapcode Global: XHD2T.7DSL
Entry Name: Loch of Breck,settlement 360m SSW of Liradale
Scheduled Date: 20 February 1995
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM6158
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: field or field system
Location: Walls and Sandness
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: Shetland West
Traditional County: Shetland
The monument comprises the remains of a prehistoric settlement of at least one house together with the remains of contemporary fields.
The settlement is located on a NE-facing slope overlooking Loch of Breck. A single oval house has been revealed by peat-cutting. It measures some 6m by 4.5m internally, with walls up to 2m thick. The entrance has been from the SE, where a curving wall foundation suggests a porch or windbreak. Within the house, alcoves can be traced in the inner face of the wall on the NE side. To the N and NW of the house small squarish terraces probably represent contemporary fields, and there are a number of small cairns, perhaps of field cleared stones, in the area.
The area to be scheduled is irregular on plan, bounded on the NE by a modern fence, which is itself excluded. It measures a maximum of 95m NE-SW by 90m, to include the house, fields and cairns and an area around them in which traces of activities associated with their construction and use may survive, as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a small prehistoric farming settlement which has the potential, through excavation and analysis, to provide important information about prehistoric domestic architecture and subsistence economy.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as HU24NW 42.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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