Loch of Huxter (Sandness)

View over the lake to the town of Huxter

The Loch of Huxter is a lake ( loch ) on Mainland , the main island of the Shetlands . It is located a little southwest of the village of Huxter and extends for about 150 meters in an east-west and about 180 meters in a north-south direction. The only tributary is the Burn of Scammidale, which rises around two kilometers southeast on the slopes of two mountains just over 200 meters high, the Hill of Melby and the Ramna Vord. It drains north via a small, roughly three hundred meter long stream, west past Huxter into the transition area between the North Atlantic and the Sound of Papa . On the banks of the brook there are three small watermills from the late 19th century , whose operation was stopped at the time of the Second World War . They are, as well as the associated ridges and a small dam , as Listed Building expelled category B and thus are listed buildings.

In the vicinity of the lake are the remains of two prehistoric buildings, both of which are registered as Scheduled Monuments . Directly on the northeastern bank there is an Iron Age brochure with a diameter of 10 meters, the walls of which are still up to a height of about 1.60 meters. About 100 meters to the southeast lies the Little Brownie's Knowe , one probably from the Bronze Age derived burnt mound .

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
2. ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
3. ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .

Coordinates: 60 ° 17 '44 "  N , 1 ° 41' 25"  W.