Mill Hill Chambered Cairn, Millbounds Eday, Scotland
Scheduled Monument Data
Mill Hill Chambered Cairn, Millbounds has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since scheduling.
- Historic Scotland ID
- SM0
- Name
- Mill Hill, chambered cairn, Millbounds
- Parish
- Eday
- County
- Orkney Islands
- Easting
- 356752
- Northing
- 1035370
- Categories
- Prehistoric ritual and funerary: chambered cairn
- Date Listed
- 31 October 1936
- Date Amended
- 19 August 1996
Scheduled Monument Description
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
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.
