Pictured here, Maes Howe is the location Hugh Sinclair brings Gemma Hardy in an attempt to explain his painful backstory. As a child, Hugh's cousin Seamus and another boy trapped him within the cairn and left him until Hugh became so consumed by fear that he passed out inside. This event kickstarted his lifelong mission to prove his father wrong, who had called Hugh a "coward" and told him that he had "no backbone" (Livesey 273). Maes Howe is a Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave; the monument was probably built around 2800 BC.

Bibliography:

Livesey, Margot. The Flight of Gemma Hardy. HarperCollins, 2012.