Gamla Vord

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View from the summit to the southwest. On the left in the background the cliff of Noss Head .

The Gamla Vord is a 85 meter high mountain in the northeast of the island of Whalsay, part of the Scottish Shetlands . At his feet are Loch Isbister in the south and the place that gives it its name , Loch Vats-houll in the west and West Loch of Skaw in the northwest . The part of the name Vord refers to a summit with a cairn . This had a diameter of around seven meters, only remnants of its stones are left. The stone box below him with the dimensions of about 60 by 120 centimeters was excavated by J. Stewart . On the north-eastern slope of the mountain, which slopes down to the North Sea, there are further remnants of prehistoric settlement with the Standing Stones of Yoxie and the Rundcairns of Pettigarths Field .

Web links

  • Gamla Vord in the Gazetteer for Scotland (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shetland Place Names Project: Shetland Place Name Elements. Digitized version on the Shetland Amenity Trust website, PDF file, 99 kB, accessed on June 14, 2018. (English)
  2. ↑ Entry on stone boxes on Gamla Vord  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)

Coordinates: 60 ° 21 ′ 56 ″  N , 0 ° 56 ′ 49 ″  W.