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Catpund
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⚒️ Mines & quarries

Catpund

Vanished settlement · United Kingdom

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
60.025, -1.241
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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.

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