Gauhsness, a place on the W coast of Dunrossness parish, Shetland, near Fitful Head. A vein or bed of iron pyrites here was, many years ago, unsuccessfully worked with the view of finding copper ore; and then produced many hundred tons of iron pyrites, which were thrown into the sea.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)