23/06/2023 – Felsite dyke, part worked,
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23/06/2023 – Gallery covered by lintel stones that could have been a workshop next to a Felsite dyke.
23/06/2023 – View across the quarry to the sea beyond. Just a wonderful location and a lovely place to be on a sunny day.
23/06/2023 – Quarried broken stones of a Felsite dyke. It covers a large area on the hillside.
23/06/2023 – Quarried stone on a Felsite dyke.
23/06/2023 – Broken stones of a Felsite dyke at the Neolithic axe factory. Grey stones of Felsite surrounded by pink stones of Ronas Hill Granite.
Canmore mentions an area of over 60 small standing stones just SE of the quarrying. I didn’t know what to make of it. Some looked naturally occurring, some placed. I could maybe make out lines formed.
23/06/2023 – Pink of Ronas Hill Granite meeting the grey of Felsite.
OS map of the area with British Geological Survey of the bedrock overlaid. Pink is the Ronas Hill Granite with the yellow strips of Felsite dykes running through it which the Neolithic people quarried.
Articles
23/06/2023 – A sunny visit to Beorgs Of Uyea. West of North Roe at the top of mainland Shetland. Neolithic Axe Factory and a Chambered Cairn marked on the OS map proved too hard a pull to ignore. I’ve been wanting to visit here for years. Straight off the ferry and an early start. Good parking at North Roe and then a track west to the site. It’s a lovely place to spend the day. Neolithic Felsite quarrying is all over a large area. Broken stones of Felsite dykes are scattered everywhere. Grey stones of Felsite surrounded by pink stones of Ronas Hill Granite. There’s a gallery covered by lintel stones that could have been a workshop. Weather was just great. Magic day out.
The paper about the role of Felsite in Neolithic Shetland is well worth a look – see links below.
Link to a nice page about the role of Felsite in Neolithic Shetland
Site record for Beorgs Of Uyea.
Sites within 20km of Beorgs Of Uyea
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Beorgs Of Uyea
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Skelberry
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Beorgs of Housetter Cairn
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Trowie Knowe
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The Beorgs of Housetter
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Ronas Hill
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The Giant’s Stones of Hamnavoe
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Yamna Field, Gluss
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March
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Loch of Breckon
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Sae Breck
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Lumbister, Yell
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