What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Wester Quarff as Barrow (bronze Age), Cist(s) (bronze Age). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Bronze Age barrow and cist tomb; significant as a burial monument reflecting early ceremonial and funerary practices in prehistoric Scotland.
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Places near here
Wester QuarffCinerary Urn (period Unassigned), Worked Object(s) (stone)(period Unassigned) · 302 yd
Beneath-a-burnHouse (period Unassigned) · 370 yd
South SnuckleBuilding (period Unassigned), Enclosure (period Unassigned), Structure(s) (period Unassigned) · 894 yd
Sheens of BreitoeMountain / peak · 1457 yd
Scrae FieldMountain / peak · 1504 yd
East Voe of QuarffBay · 1.4 mi
Loch of FladdabisterHorizontal Mill (period Unassigned) · 1.6 mi
TrondraIsland · 1.7 mi
Wick of BurlandBay · 2.1 mi
Meal BeachBeach / strand · 2.4 mi
Merry HolmIslet · 2.5 mi
Scalloway, Castle Street, Scalloway CastleTower House (medieval) · 2.7 miOther information
Photo: Richard Webb · CC BY-SA 2.0