
What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Cuween Hill as Animal Burial(s) (late Neolithic), Chambered Cairn (late Neolithic), Inhumation(s) (late Neolithic). 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.
Chambered cairn, late Neolithic period. Cuween Hill is significant as one of the few Neolithic tombs in northern Scotland and contains some of the best-preserved examples of Neolithic human and animal burials in the region.
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Places near here
Orkney, Cuween HillMarker Cairn(s) (20th Century) · 70 yd
StoneyhallFarmstead (period Unassigned)(possible) · 163 yd
StonehallBuilding (period Unassigned) · 224 yd
Grimbister from Cuween HillMountain or hill · 307 yd
Hill of HeddleBarrow(s) (prehistoric) · 671 yd
Cemetery, FinstownChurch, cross or graveyard · 869 yd
War MemorialMemorial · 1072 yd
Houses on Heddle HillMountain or hill · 1084 yd
The OuseBay · 1741 yd
Hill of LyradaleMountain / peak · 1.1 mi
Keelylang HillMountain / peak · 1.8 mi
BurnessNo Class (event) (21st Century) · 2.4 miOther information
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