The Caithness cairns have been resurveyed since they were decsribed in the long out-of-print first volume of Audrey Henshall's The Chambered Tombs of Scotland . This volume provides a detailed and up-to-date account of the seventy eight Neolithic chambered cairns known in Caithness and a full description of their contents. The book begins with an introduction to the Caithness cairns and an interpretation of their significance.