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  • Mystery 'Mound' To Be Saved From The Sea (Shetlands)

    01/26/2008 10:07:01 PM PST · by blam · 6 replies · 72+ views
    The Shetland news ^ | 1-26-2008 | Gavin Morgan
    Mystery ‘mound’ to be saved from the sea Gavin Morgan 26 January, 2008 ARCHAEOLOGISTS plan to save a fine example of a Bronze Age burnt mound from disappearing into the sea in a unique £70,000 removal operation on Shetland this coming summer. Historic Scotland has given permission for the site at Cruister, on Bressay, to be shifted to the islands’ heritage centre. The unprecedented project will see the prehistoric version of a water heater, a third of which has already been eroded by the sea, dismantled and rebuilt in fully functional order. Barbara Anderson, of Bressay Heritage Centre, said it...