Hoy, Groups

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Hoy, Groups as Barrow Cemetery (prehistoric), Square Barrow(s) (iron 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.

Iron Age square barrow cemetery; associated with burial practices of the later prehistoric period in northern Britain. Its form reflects regional variations in funerary architecture during the transition from the Bronze Age to Iron Age.