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Hestinsetter Hill, Giant's Grave

Chambered Cairn (neolithic)

What is recorded here

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Hestinsetter Hill, Giant's Grave as Chambered Cairn (neolithic). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Neolithic chambered cairn; dates to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. It is significant as part of a broader network of prehistoric funerary monuments in northern Scotland, reflecting early communal burial practices and social organisation.

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