Burn of Lunklet Ruins

[khitajrah]

Since it was such a lovely evening we decided to walk up to the waterfall at the Burn of Lunklet and I noticed this:

 

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll42/khitajrah/2007_12240014.jpg

 

I had a look at the Old Maps site that was recommended on another similar query, and PastMap http://jura.rcahms.gov.uk/PASTMAP/Map revealed this:

 

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll42/khitajrah/PASTMAP_JURA1443642281626.jpg

 

I couldn't find a proper Legend and it's probably just some old plantiecrub, but has anyone got any ideas what it might be?

 

Many thanks!

 

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[ArabiaTerra]

I assume you are asking about the circular structure and not the bank behind it. It looks like it could be a roundhouse, probably iron age. I would have expected a planticrub to have more stone showing and a wheelhouse to be bigger. It could be as old as bronze age. There are examples of bronze age roundhouses around the Stanydale temple.

[khitajrah]

oops!

 

this = the circular stucture in the centre of the photograph.

[MaxFusion]

there's a few of these up the graven burn

 

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=60.433282,-1.248815&spn=0.003838,0.009774&t=h&z=17

 

if you look real closely at the two sharp bends in the burn(almost in the centre) you should just be able to make them out...

 

MF

[khitajrah]

After asking those who would be in the know (Allen Fraser - who asked around as well) the general concensus is that it's a plantiecrub (planti-krub?) that has been “fellie”-bigget, so there’s not much of it left. It's the right size, the right shape and is in very typical site.

[MJ]

Oh well, there I was assuming it was a Mill, still think that may explain maxfusion's ones though.

[MaxFusion]

there's some o them up Graven burn that's definately mills, how old I dunno but there's a definate overgrown ditch leading to some of them

as for the others I can't remember there being any way for the water to get thru them...

definately no felly biggit tho, thems stanes in them thar walls(at graven).

 

worth the wander sometime if you're in the area!

 

MF

[khitajrah]

This ruined structure is further on over the hill from the Burn of Lunklet. It doesn't appear to be on the OS map - can anyone tell me what it was?

 

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii29/fjaana/Burn%20of%20Lunklet%20ruins/ruins1.jpg

 

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii29/fjaana/Burn%20of%20Lunklet%20ruins/ruins4.jpg

 

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii29/fjaana/Burn%20of%20Lunklet%20ruins/ruins3.jpg

 

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii29/fjaana/Burn%20of%20Lunklet%20ruins/ruins5.jpg

[Boz]

I think that's probably the old croft of Lunklet. It's in the right place for it on the map anyway...

[MuckleJoannie]

I would agree. If you go to this site and zoom in on East Burrafirth you will find the 19th century 6 inch to one mile map shows Lunklet where your map points.

 

http://geo.nls.uk/os6inch/google.html

[khitajrah]

Thank you both!

[tabbahenry]

yep that last photos is of a old house and the owner after being at sea had a bear. well thats what i was told by my dad a east burrafirth born and bread. i was told more but being young at the time i didnt listen.

[Gaepshot]

As a boy in the 50's I used to go fishing in the burn and the round structure still had stones appearing through the grass, in the burn along side was a large millstone with just a small part of it to be seen above the silt. if you look on the 1840 map on MJ's link you will see a mill marked. I remember an old lady who lived near the burn many years ago telling me a story about the miller, his name was John Teit or Tait, being beseiged by Trow's, they danced around the mill chanting his name, but the rest of the story I've forgotten.

I left Shetland in the early 60's and when I returned in the 70's the millstone had been removed.

We were told as bairns that the building at Lunklet was supposed to be a leper colony, but that is often used to explain out of the way ruins that nobody really knows anything about.

[Guest]

never heard da wan aboot da bear, or da leper colony for dat maeter, but it's definitely da place whaar da ancestors o a lok o Aest Burrafirt bed.

Hit's wan o da most paeceful places at A'm ever been if you joost sit an listen tae da watter tricklin doon da burns, an da birds aa roond.

But if VE haes dir wye, da hills up abune will be covered wi muckle turbines, concrete, quarries an rods.

[concerned shetlander]

Burn of Lunklett is a beautiful place and my daughter every time she comes home goes as soon as possible there, maybe the same day she arrives home. How anyone can think of tearing up peat and heather to put Viking energy windfarms near it is unthinkable. The beautiful heather and the honeysuckle at the waterfall is a sight to behold and I would rather do without electricity than disturb up there. The hills of scallowfield and all the lochs and burns with trouts and birds is something to be proud of and all councellers should have been forced to go up there before they voted for Viking energy.