View of my legs and feet pointing out to the Pentland Firth/ North Sea with my binoculars on my lap and my large insulated mug/flask beside me. The sea is flat calm and the sky is cloudy. I'm sat in a slab of rock, with other rock similar to it is also jutting out of the grass on the sloping clifftop..

Me: late 30s female with short curly greying hair with glasses with darkened lens. Wearing a bright blue waterproof (my old one kept for crawling inside tombs- as one does) and the black strap of my binoculars visible around my neck. Smiling and looking relaxed as I lean back against a lichen covered slab of rock.

All in all not a bad Friday! I love where I live and I do try not to take the marvels around me for granted! Special thanks to the South Ron community bus which runs Friday & Saturday which allowed me to make it there and back on public transport! #Orkney #SouthRon #Neolithic #FriYay

View out to the North sea through the entrance tunnel at the Tomb of the Eagles. You can see the calm sea and sky in the distance, the rope stung from the roof to pull yourself along and the long thick slabs that make up the walls and ceiling of the tunnel. The ground is covered with thick protective tarpaulin to protect it from the trolley and people entering/exiting the site.

The view through the entrance as I prepared to come out - I can't blame them for wanting their final resting place to be with this view! #TombOfTheEagles #Orkney #SouthRon #Neolithic

To enter the chambered cairn nowadays you use the trolley with a rope attached overhead to pull yourself along. Not quite how the Neolithic inhabitants of Orkney would have entered but effective! #TombOfTheEagles #Orkney #SouthRon #Neolithic

A Brown tourist road sign with a white border propped on the ground against a wall. On the sign there's a blue oval to the left with a white border and a white thistle on it. The text in white on the sign reads "Tomb of the Eagles" with an arrow pointing right.

Front view of the Tomb of the Eagles, a neolithic chambered cairn, South Ronaldsay, Orkney. A tunnel entrance leads inside the tomb. It's covered in grass but the front is exposed and shows the well known Neolithic Orkney building style of horizontal stones and slabs. This technique for wall building is still used in Orkney today.

The view out onto the Pentland Firth/ North Sea from the the tomb of the Eagles. Slanting layered rock leads out to the cliff edge and a flat calm slate grey sea. Patchy cloud with hints of blue sky stretches from horizon to overhead.

Inside the chambered cairn. There is a concrete roof on it now as it had its roof removed and filled in when the Neolithic people who used it had finished with it. Tall stone orthostats intersect the walls of long heavy horizontal stone stabs that make up the walls of the structure. There are chambers at each end of the cairn as well as side chambers as well.

Today I finally got to revisit my favourite #Neolithic tomb! #TombOfTheEagles it closed in 2020 & the owners have sold the site to Burray & South Ronaldsay development trust. It reopened in September & closes on Sunday for winter. It's been a while (decades) since I've been inside! #Orkney #SouthRon