Mill Hill Chambered Cairn, Millbounds Eday, Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK

Scheduled Monument Description

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The monument comprises a well-preserved chambered burial cairn of Neolithic date.

The cairn is set on a hilltop, and is largely heather-clad. It stands 1.6m high and measures 19m across. On the E side there has been a horned forecourt, although all but the foundations of the walls of the horns have been removed. The interior was opened in the 1850s, and is known to contain at least 4 chambers, but probably contains considerable quantities of undisturbed deposits.

The area to be scheduled is a circle of 40m diameter, to include the cairn, its horns and an area around in which evidence of the cairn's construction and use may survive, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.