What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Gairsay as Cairn (period Unassigned), Cist (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.
Neolithic cairn and cist; dating to the Early to Middle Neolithic period (c. 3500–2500 BCE). The site is significant as part of the broader funerary and ritual landscape of Orkney, reflecting early communal burial practices and stone monument construction in northern Scotland.
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Places near here
Sweyn's Castle - burnt mound (Prehistoric)Archaeological place · 481 yd
Trig Point and Cairn, highest point on Gairsay (102 metres)Ancient tomb or cairn · 593 yd
Sweyn HolmBuilding (period Unassigned) · 623 yd
Millburn Bay, GairsayPier (period Unassigned) · 688 yd
Gairsay, Hen of GairsayEnclosure (period Unassigned) · 772 yd
Holm of BorayShip (16th Century) · 1474 yd
Gairsay, Langskaill HouseCastle (medieval) · 1654 yd
Seal SkerryIslet · 1.5 mi
Holm of RendallIslet · 1.7 mi
Rendall Old CemeteryChurch, cross or graveyard · 2.3 mi
Bay of HinderayreBay · 2.3 mi
Bay of FurrowendBay · 2.6 mi