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<< Our Photo Pages >> Pund's Water - Chambered Cairn in Scotland in Shetland

Submitted by PAB on Thursday, 15 February 2001  Page Views: 12702

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Pund's Water Alternative Name: Pundswater Neolithic Tomb and House
Country: Scotland County: Shetland Type: Chambered Cairn

Map Ref: HU32457124  Landranger Map Number: 3
Latitude: 60.423705N  Longitude: 1.412509W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Pund's Water submitted by PAB : Pund's Water, looking into the east-facing opening. The sheep have clearly contributed significantly to spreading the stones around, so the original curve in the façade has been lost. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Chambered Cairn in Shetland. It sits on a plateau above the loch caled Pund's Water, one of many glacier-formed lochs on Shetland.

Pund's Water is reported to be the site of the best surviving 'heel-shaped' cairn on Mainland Shetland. The cairn stands on a plateau above the south shore of the loch known as Punds Water, and it is possible to obtain an almost aerial-view perspective from a nearby hilltop from which the 'heel-like' shape is much more easily recognized. From the same vantage point (HU 32653 71169), a further site can also be seen above the opposite bank, thought by some writers to be a contemporary homestead.

As with other sites visited in Shetland, the description given in Peter Guy's guide (Walking the coastline of Shetland, No. 4: Northmavine, ISBN:1904746179) was too succinct to need changing: "On a plateau above the south shore (of Punds Water loch) a mound of stones will be seen which closer inspection will reveal to be the best heel-shaped cairn on Mainland Shetland. It is estimated to have a 50ft façade, the outer ends of which are prolonged into horns. At the centre of the façade a roofless entrance leads to a roofless, trefoil shaped cairn chamber 6ft square. Build of white granite boulders, measuring 2ft x 1ft, it rises some 5ft above the surface of the knoll on which it stands. The walls of the chamber, which still stand 4ft 9ins high, are built in regular courses of masonry without any use of upright slabs. …. The roof of the cairn has collapsed inwards."

There are section and plan drawings of the cairn on the website of RCAHMS (Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Scotland), together with sources of reference
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Pund's Water submitted by howe : The passage into the cairn with possible blocking or more likely collapsed cairn material (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Pund's Water submitted by howe : The chamber with side cells and collapsed roofing (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Pund's Water submitted by PAB : Close-up of lintel and entrance. The Chambered Cairn sits on a plateau above the loch caled Pund's Water, one of many glacier-formed lochs on Shetland. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Pund's Water submitted by PAB : Chambered Cairn at Punds Water, looking SW towards open sea. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
HU3271 : Skipta Field by Rude Health
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HU3271 : Gill Water by Robert Sandison
by Robert Sandison
©2007(licence)
HU3271 : Punds Water by David Nicolson
by David Nicolson
©2011(licence)
HU3271 : Above Mangaster by Lis Burke
by Lis Burke
©2005(licence)
HU3270 : The Gill Burn by David Nicolson
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Re: Pund's Water by chrispy on Sunday, 03 September 2017
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8 fig grid ref no. HU 3245 7124 canmore 828
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Guided Walk to Pundswater Neolithic Tomb and House, Mangaster, Sat 30 July by Andy B on Sunday, 19 June 2011
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Guided Walk to Pundswater Neolithic Tomb and House, Mangaster

Sat 30 July 10.00–12.00

Guided walk from Mangaster Farm to the Neolithic chambered tomb and house, exploring their relationship to each other and the landscape.

Pundswater is one of Shetland’s largest and best preserved Neolithic chambered tombs. Externally heel shaped, it possesses a small tripartite chambered reached by a long passageway from its southeast facing, concave façade. A few hundred meters further north is a Neolithic house of strikingly similar design, again heel shaped but with larger interior spaces recessed into the thick walls arranged around a central hearth.
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Location: Parking at Mangaster Farm, North of Mavis Grind. Parking at Mangaster Farm up a single track road from the A970 about one and a half miles north of Mavis Grind. Starting out from there at 10am a 25 minute walk initially up quite a steep slope, a mile north to the tomb and then the house. Tomb Grid reference HU 324 712.

Org: Sheltand College UHI
Name: Simon Clarke, Esther Renwick
Tel: 01595 771278
Email: simon.clarke@shetland.uhi.ac.uk
Web: http://communities.uhi.ac.uk/sh01sc/weblog/3852.html

Part of the Festival of British Archaeology 2011
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Re: Pund's Water by PAB on Saturday, 21 October 2006
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Condition: 3
Ambience: 4
Access: 4

Site visited 9 October 2006
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