Region : Shetland Island : Mainland Town or village : Mangaster Grid Reference : HU 324 712 Period : 3rd-2nd millennium BC Punds Water CHAMBERED CAIRN

On a small knoll on remote moorland lies this heel-shaped chambered cairn. It is made of quartzite boulders and measures 15m x 12m in diameter and about 1.4m in height. The cairn's back is round while the façade ends in projecting horns. At the centre of the façade there is the entrance to the trefoil-shaped burial chamber. Excavation in 1930 showed that the floor of the chamber was of red water-worn pebbles.

Other chambered cairns ------------------ Achnacree (Carn Ban) Barpa Langass Beorgs of Housetter Blackhammer Cairnholy I Cairnholy II Camster Long Camster Round Camus nan Geall Clettraval Cnoc Freiceadain North Cnoc Freiceadain South Coille na Borgie South Cuween Hill East Bennan Garrywhin (Cairn o' Get) Holm of Papa Westray North Holm of Papa Westray South Isbister (Tomb of the Eagles) Knowe of Lairo Knowe of Yarso Maes Howe Midhowe Nether Largie South Ord North Ord South Punds Water South Yarrows South Taversoe Tuick Torrylin Unival Unstan Vinquoy Wideford Hill Other sites in Shetland ---------------------- Beorgs of Housetter (Giant's Grave) Busta Clickimin Hamnavoe (Giant's Stones) Jarlshof Loch of Houlland Mousa Ness of Burgi Punds Water Scord of Brouster Skellister (Auld Wife) Stanydale Tingwall (Murder Stone)