 Chambered Cairns & Standing Stones Shetland
has a large number of chambered cairns, mostly small and ruinous. They
are often built in conspicuous places on hills, orskylines. Most are "heel-shaped"
and quite small, and often with a small exterior forecourt. There are
also a number of very ruinous cairns which may originally have been quite
large but have been almost totally robbed-out. Although there are no stone
circle, Shetland has quite a number of isolated monoliths of indeterminate
antiquity.
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