Punds Water is a freshwater loch near Mangaster in

Northmavine Northmavine or Northmaven ( non, Norðan Mæfeið, meaning ‘the land north of the Mavis Grind’) is a peninsula in northwest Mainland Shetland in Scotland. The peninsula has historically formed the civil parish Northmavine. The modern Northmav ...

, Shetland. It also gives its name to a nearby

Neolithic The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several p ...

heel-shaped cairn The heel-shaped cairn, with its usually cruciform chamber, is a type of megalithic monument that is found in Scotland, especially in Caithness and Sutherland and in the Shetland Islands. In Orkney, the Isbister Cairn is the only site that ...

Heel-shaped cairn

The cairn (at ) is composed of large boulders and stands about high above the surrounding peat. The facade faces east by southeast and measures more than across. From front to back the cairn measures . Within the facade is the entrance to a passage leading to a trefoil-shaped burial chamber.

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* * Henshall, A S. (1963a) The chambered tombs of Scotland, vol. 1. Edinburgh. Page(s): 172 ZET 33 RCAHMS Shelf Number: E.7.1.HEN * MacKie, E W. (1975a) Scotland: an archaeological guide: from the earliest times to the twelfth century. London. Page(s): 284 RCAHMS Shelf Number: E.2.MAC * RCAHMS. (1946) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Twelfth report with an inventory of the ancient monuments of Orkney and Shetland, 3v. Edinburgh. Page(s): 96 No.1367 RCAHMS Shelf Number: A.1.1.INV/12 * Ritchie, A. (1985a) Exploring Scotland's heritage: Orkney and Shetland, Exploring Scotland's heritage series. Edinburgh. Page(s): 166-7 No.103 RCAHMS Shelf Number: A.1.4.HER * Ritchie, A. (1997b) Shetland, Exploring Scotland's Heritage series. 2nd. Edinburgh. Page(s): 134-5 No. 69 RCAHMS Shelf Number: A.1.4.HER Chambered cairns in Scotland Mainland, Shetland Archaeological sites in Shetland Neolithic Scotland Northmavine {{Shetland-geo-stub

Heel-shaped cairn

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