📌 Isle of Rousay, Orkney Isles
★★★★
🛠️ Site open with some access restrictions due to masonry work (checked April 2024)
Visit Orkney and you’re likely to hear a phrase something like, “scratch the surface of Orkney and it bleeds history”. Nowhere more so than little Rousay, often referred to as Egypt of the North. Amongst hundreds of archaeological sites, perhaps the finest of all is Midhowe Chambered Cairn. This vast Neolithic tomb is protected from the elements by a hangar-like structure which also allows viewing from above (and shelter in case of bad weather!).
🌍 Location
📌 Off the B9064 5 mi west of the ferry terminal, Rousay
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: HY 373305
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 59.156546,-3.099152
🚌 Bus on demand, connecting with ferry terminal
🚗 Car park shared with Midhowe Broch
📝 Key info
⌚ Always open
🎫 Free
💬 From the car park it’s a 10-min walk (each way) to the cairn, steeply downhill on a grassy path (⬤⬤ Easy to Moderate).
