What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Westray, Kestro as Cist (prehistoric), Inhumation (prehistoric). 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.
A Neolithic cist tomb, dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE, significant as an early form of stone burial monument commonly found in Orkney and reflecting the funerary practices of prehistoric Scotland.
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Places near here
Westray, TuquoyMidden (viking) - (norse), Settlement (viking) - (norse) · 817 yd
Cross Kirk graveyard and gateChurch, cross or graveyard · 868 yd
Cross-kirk at TuquoyChurch, cross or graveyard · 872 yd
Westray, LangskaillTownship (period Unassigned) · 916 yd
Cross Kirk graveyardChurch, cross or graveyard · 923 yd
Westray, Bay of TuquoyKelp Pit(s) (post Medieval), Naust(s) (post Medieval) · 1428 yd
Betsy: Ness of Tuquoy, Westray, Westray FirthSloop (19th Century) · 1433 yd_in_background_-_geograph.org.uk_-_521715.jpg?width=1280)
East Kirbest farm with Vins Hamar (Fitty Hill) in backgroundMountain or hill · 1.2 mi
Fitty Hill, Westside, WestrayMountain or hill · 1.3 mi
Bay of TuquoyBay · 1.3 mi
Fitty HillMountain / peak · 1.5 mi
Skea HillMountain / peak · 1.7 mi