What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Brecks, Scatness as Burial Cairn (bronze Age), Cist (bronze Age), Inhumation (bronze Age), Beaker (pottery)(bronze Age). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Bronze Age burial cairn with associated cist and inhumation, likely dating to the second millennium BCE. Its association with Beaker pottery suggests links to broader Neolithic to Bronze Age funerary practices in northern Britain.
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