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Gletna W
Date Added: 11th Aug 2014
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 24th Jun 2014. My rating: Ambience 3 Access 5
Gletna W submitted by DrGeoff on 29th Jun 2013. Gletna on Unst June 2009.
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Log Text: A not fully circular and not fully closed "circle" of very low stones, about 50m in diameter, marked on Ordnance Survey maps by a dished line -- see e.g. the map at the Canmore site no. 63, the remains of Gletna Kirk. Note that the map shows some 250 m South a similar, somewhat larger, round structure (did not visit that site).
All it all is seems very unlikely that this is a prehistoric stone circle, hence the "condition" is marked as "unknown".
Uyea Breck
Date Added: 11th Aug 2014
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 24th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Uyea Breck submitted by Peter Taylor on 10th Feb 2002. This stone is outside the village of Uyeasound, on Unst, northernmost of the Shetland Isles. It is the northernmost of the two marked on the OS map at about HP 606 007. The photo was taken 16/10/2001, a
spectacularly beautiful day for Shetland at that time of year.
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Log Text: Canmore site no. 137.
Loch Of Strom
Date Added: 11th Aug 2014
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Loch Of Strom submitted by Tom_Bullock on 25th Nov 2004. Photo used by kind permission of Tom Bullock. More details of this location are to be found on his Stone Circles and Rows CD-ROM
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Log Text: The central feature is thought to be an elliptic stone circle of 5m by 4.1m by A. Thom and R.L. Merritt (JHA vol. 9, 1978, p. 60); see the site map. There 8 stones still standing, one of which is 1.2m tall, the rest less than 0.6m; 4 stones are marked as fallen. Given that there are more stones close to this central feature, it seems more likely to be a field system of some sort.