Description

The monument comprises a burnt mound, a prehistoric cooking place. The scheduled area, established in 1975, is inadequate fully to protect the archaeological remains, and this proposal extends it slightly to achieve this.

The mound is situated N of the junction of two small streams which flow into the Links of Quendale. It is composed of small fire-cracked stones, the by-product of heating water by immersing fire-heated stones in a trough. It is oval on plan, measuring about 20m NW-SE by 12m and standing up to 2m high. Such mounds in the Northern Isles have proved, on excavation, generally to be of Bronze Age date (1800 - 600 BC approximately).

The area now to be scheduled is irregular on plan, measuring a maximum of 35m WNW-ESE by 25m. It is bounded on the S and SW by the small stream channels and around the rest of the perimeter by an arc of a circle 35m across centred on the top of the mound. The area is shown in red on the accompanying map extract.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Sources

Bibliography
No Bibliography entries for this designation

Source: Historic Environment Scotland