Blackhammer Chambered Cairn

Enhance your visit to Blackhammer Chambered Cairn

Although things might be a little different on your visit, you can still enjoy exploring Blackhammer Chambered Cairn.

Find out more about this historic place below.

Journey inside

Explore Blackhammer Chambered Cairn with our short video tour.

The 5,000-year-old burial monument is one of 15 on the isle of Rousay.

Travel down the long central chamber of this final resting place for Neolithic farming communities.

Explore the history

Excavations in the 1930s revealed two adult male skeletons, fragments of animal bone, a bone pin, a polished stone axe of plain grey-green stone and Neolithic pottery.

We don't know whether the artefacts were grave-goods buried with an individual, or objects used during burial rites.

Evidence suggests the chambered tombs were visited by the living.