How To Get There Follow the A960 out of Kirkwall to the south east. Pass by Kirkwall Airport and continue for around 2 miles. The site is sign posted from the main road.
Parking is available opposite the cemetery.
In addition to the actual site there is a reconstruction of part of it and also an exhibition of photographs, newspaper articles and some of the finds from the site. Mine Howe has been causing something of a stir in Orkney since its rediscovery in September 1999. The mound had been opened up once before in 1946 but was then abandoned and covered over for 53 years. Farmer Douglas Patterson re-opened the mound and a curious structure was excavated. From the entrance hole a flight of steps leads down to a small landing.