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
