
Catpund
Vanished settlement · United Kingdom
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 60.025, -1.241
Why it was abandoned
⚒️ Mines & quarries
Detected automatically from the text: Catpund is a quarry site in Shetland, Scotland, where steatite vessels were cut from the rock from prehistory onwards.
History
Catpund is a quarry site in Shetland, Scotland, where steatite vessels were cut from the rock from prehistory onwards. The quarrying marks are still visible today.