Carrick House Chambered Cairn NW of, Eday Eday, Scotland
Scheduled Monument Data
Carrick House Chambered Cairn NW of, Eday 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since scheduling.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
- Carrick House, chambered cairn NW of, Eday
- Parish
- Eday
- County
- Orkney Islands
- Easting
- 356361
- Northing
- 1038800
- Categories
- Prehistoric ritual and funerary: chambered cairn
- Date Listed
- 31 October 1936
- Date Amended
- 19 August 1996
- Date Updated
- 5 June 2018
Scheduled Monument Description
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The monument comprises the remains of a probable chambered burial cairn of Neolithic date.
The cairn is situated on an E-facing slope. It measures 8.5m across and up to 0.8m high, and appears to be of small to medium stones, with larger blocks protruding in the centre. These latter suggest that there has been a burial chamber here, but this is not certain. There is little doubt this is a prehistoric cairn, but it may be of Bronze Age rather than Neolithic date. There is no record of excavation.
The area to be scheduled is a circle 30m in diameter, to include the cairn and an area around it in which evidence relating to its construction and use may survive. This area is shown in red on the accompanying map extract.
