What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Gairsay 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.
A Neolithic chambered cairn; significant as part of the broader pattern of early prehistoric funerary monuments in the Orkney Islands.
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Places near here
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Trig Point and Cairn, highest point on Gairsay (102 metres)Ancient tomb or cairn · 317 yd
Gairsay, Langskaill HouseCastle (medieval) · 810 yd
Langskaill House viewed from the souwestOld home or work place · 879 yd
Gairsay, North HeadBuilding (period Unassigned)(possible), Sheepfold(s) (period Unassigned) · 1048 yd
Sweyn's Castle - burnt mound (Prehistoric)Archaeological place · 1123 yd
Gairsay, Hen of GairsayEnclosure (period Unassigned) · 1379 yd
Holm of BorayShip (16th Century) · 1.0 mi
Seal SkerryIslet · 1.3 mi
Holm of RendallIslet · 1.3 mi
Rendall Old CemeteryChurch, cross or graveyard · 1.9 mi
Bay of HinderayreBay · 2.0 mi
Bay of FurrowendBay · 2.9 miOther information
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