Publication Account
Date 1996
Event ID 1016373
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1016373
Set on a hilltop, this tomb commands a very extensive view over Orkney. It is a well-preserved and restored example of a Maes Howe type of tomb, with a main chamber and four side-cells. As it was built on a slope, the tomb is partly subterranean, with its entrance downs lope and a level floor created by digging back into the hillside. The main chamber must originally have been at least 3m high, and the corbelling of its roof cannot have been an easy task given the irregular fracturing of the local stone.
Nothing is known of the original contents of the tomb.
Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Orkney’, (1996).
