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Images

Image of Hill of Cruester, Bressay (Standing Stone / Menhir) by thelonious

20/09/2014 – Hill Of Cruester standing stone

thelonious Sep 20, 2014

20/09/2014 – Hill Of Cruester standing stone

thelonious Sep 20, 2014

20/09/2014 – Hill Of Cruester standing stone

thelonious Sep 20, 2014

Image of Hill of Cruester, Bressay (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Billy Fear

Looking SE.
09/2004

Image credit: Billy Fear

Billy Fear Feb 19, 2009

Looking SW with Lerwick in the background.
09/2004

Image credit: Billy Fear

Billy Fear Feb 19, 2009

Articles

Hill of Cruester, Bressay

Archaeologists work to conserve mound at Cruister

C Michael Hogan Feb 4, 2008

In a rare undertaking, archaeologists are planning to disassemble a portion of this site dating to about 2000 BC. Much of the stonework is threatened by coastal erosion so that salvaging and reconstruction of certain ruins is proposed for this burnt mound site. At stake is the preservation of one of the world’s oldest prehistoric stone water heaters. ....Read the full story by Gavin Morgan in The Shetland News.

Hill of Cruester, Bressay

Standing Stone / Menhir

thelonious Sep 20, 2014

20/09/2014 – A really fine standing stone. Visible from all around, it stands in peaceful loneliness on a small rise. I was very taken with it.

Hill of Cruester, Bressay

Standing Stone / Menhir

FlopsyPete Apr 29, 2002

‘tall flat slab. slap! at the top of its hillock visible from so many places, so many seas, islands and so far away. in this way, better placed than most for visibility, and singularly purposeful at being tall and seen as its so thin and straight. cock shaped. how does a stone of such bold and simple shape come about?‘

- 22 March 2002

directions: visible from parts of Lerwick and from the ferry over. from ‘A Guide to Prehistoric and Viking Shetland’ by Noel Fojut: “Heogan road, then road past Keldabister, left onto track and follow this N”