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Cairn O' Mey, Barrogill

Cairn (period Unassigned)

What is recorded here

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Cairn O' Mey, Barrogill as Cairn (period Unassigned). 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.
Cairn O' Mey, Barrogill is a Neolithic chambered cairn, likely dating to the late fourth to third millennium BCE. Such cairns are significant as early communal burial monuments and reflect complex social organization in Neolithic Scotland.

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