What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Whalsay, Whitefield as Cairn (period Unassigned), Cist (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 100m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
A Neolithic cairn and cist burial monument; significant as part of the early funerary landscape of Orkney.
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Places near here
Whalsay, SkibberhoullFarmstead (period Unassigned) · 653 yd.jpg?width=1280)
HamisterVillage (period Unassigned) · 910 yd
Whalsay, Loch of HuxterBlockhouse (prehistoric), Causeway (prehistoric), Fort (prehistoric) · 992 yd.jpg?width=1280)
Ward of ClettMountain / peak · 1165 yd
Hanseatic Trading BoothHeritage attraction · 1294 yd
Whalsay, StanefieldStanding Stone (prehistoric) · 1513 yd
Setter HillMountain / peak · 1570 yd
WhalsayIsland · 1.5 mi
Bruse HolmIslet · 2.1 mi
Bight of StavanessBay · 3.6 mi
Pacific: Gun Geo, Snafa Baa, East Linga, Whalsay Skerries, North SeaSteamship (19th Century) · 3.9 mi
Anna Dora Stein: Calf of Linga, Whalsay Skerries, North SeaSchooner (19th Century) · 4.1 mi