What you'll hear inside Maeshowe:

• 1
  Central Chamber

  Maeshowe's near-square central chamber features dry-stone walls rising into a corbelled vault, with four standing megaliths at the corners adding to its commanding scale.

• 2
  Entrance Passage

  A low, narrow passage of massive sandstone slabs leads into Maeshowe's central chamber.

• 3
  Runic Inscriptions

  One of Europe's largest collections of Viking graffiti, carved into the sandstone walls by Norse visitors between around 1125 and 1175 AD.

• 4
  Side Cells

  Three small chambers set into the north, east, and west walls of Maeshowe's central chamber, their entrances raised some 80 cm above the floor — unusually for Orkney cairns.