What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Gallow Hill 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 early to middle Neolithic period (c. 3500–2500 BCE). Such cairns are significant as they represent some of the earliest communal burial and ceremonial structures in Scotland.
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Places near here
Gallow HillQuarry (period Unassigned) · 158 yd
Voe of BrowlandPeat Stand (period Unassigned) · 206 yd
Bridge of WallsClearance Cairn(s) (prehistoric) · 342 yd
Stany FieldsQuarry Scoop(s) (period Unassigned) · 692 yd
Walls War MemorialMemorial · 1.3 mi
Robert Tait's HillMountain / peak · 1.9 mi
Twatt HillMountain / peak · 2.1 mi
Holm of BurrastowIslet · 2.9 mi
Muckle FlaesIslet · 3.6 mi
Effirth VoeBay · 4.1 mi
Bixter VoeBay · 4.5 mi
Spray: Rea WickSloop (19th Century) · 5.9 mi