Track length: | 5.07 km |
Moving time: | 1:02 |
Average speed: | 4.83 km/h |
Total ascent: | 30 m |
Total descent: | 36 m |
The Orkney Islands are home to an estimated five hundred Neolithic burial chambered cairns, of which only a select few can be examined on the interior, including the Unstan Chambered Cairn. The tomb is a stalled cairn, which means that it has a number of distinct burial niches that are partitioned off from one another by large stones that are standing upright. Although it is not the largest nor the most gorgeous of the tombs, it is well-known due to the discovery of twenty separate bowl fragments within its confines. The pottery that was found in this cairn and several other similar cairns located all across Orkney has been given the name Unstan Ware. It's a bad the roof is so contemporary; if it had Viking sculptures like the ones at Maeshowe, then there would be something to show for the renovation.