A chambered cairn is a burial monument, usually constructed during the Neolithic, consisting of a sizeable (usually stone) chamber around and over which a cairn of stones was constructed. Some chambered cairns are also passage-graves. They are found throughout Britain and Ireland, with the largest number in Scotland.
Typically, the chamber is larger than a cist, and will contain a larger number of interments, which are either excarnated bones or inhumations (cremations). Most were situated near a settlement, and served as that community's "graveyard".
A chamberedcairn is a burial monument, usually constructed during the Neolithic, consisting of a sizeable (usually stone) chamber around and over which...
Midhowe ChamberedCairn is a large Neolithic chamberedcairn located on the south shore of the island of Rousay, Orkney, Scotland. The name "Midhowe" comes...
Quanterness chamberedcairn is a Neolithic burial monument located on Mainland, Orkney in Scotland. An Iron Age roundhouse built into the cairn was discovered...
Unstan (or Onstan, or Onston) is a Neolithic chamberedcairn located about 2 mi (3 km) north-east of Stromness on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. The tomb...
Braeside chamberedcairn is a Neolithic burial monument located on the island of Eday in Orkney, Scotland. It is an Orkney-Cromarty type stalled cairn, similar...
Corrimony chamberedcairn, located near the village of Glen Urquhart in the Highlands of Scotland, is a well-preserved Bronze Age burial monument belonging...
Huntersquoy chamberedcairn is a Neolithic chamberedcairn located on the island of Eday, in Orkney, Scotland. The monument dates from the 3rd millennium...
Cairnderry chamberedcairn is a chamberedcairn in Dumfries and Galloway. It is a Bargrennan cairn, a type of Neolithic or early Bronze Age monument only...
Quoyness chamberedcairn is a Neolithic burial monument located on the island of Sanday in Orkney, Scotland. Similar to Maeshowe in design, the tomb was...
Blackhammer ChamberedCairn is a Neolithic chamberedcairn located on the island of Rousay, in Orkney, Scotland. The tomb, constructed around 3000 BC,...
The court cairn or court tomb is a megalithic type of chamberedcairn or gallery grave. During the period, 3900–3500 BC, more than 390 court cairns were...
Vinquoy chamberedcairn (grid reference HY56013809) is a Neolithic chamberedcairn located on the island of Eday, in Orkney, Scotland. The tomb probably...
107778°W / 58.997117; -3.107778 Cuween Hill ChamberedCairn (grid reference HY364127) is a Neolithic chamberedcairn on Mainland, the main island of Orkney...
Maeshowe (or Maes Howe; Old Norse: Orkhaugr) is a Neolithic chamberedcairn and passage grave situated on Mainland Orkney, Scotland. It was probably built...
Wideford Hill chamberedcairn is a Neolithic chamberedcairn on Mainland, Orkney in Scotland. The tomb dates to around 2000 BC, and is similar in design...
Shetland Islands at an elevation of 450 m (1,480 ft). A Neolithic chamberedcairn is located near the summit. Ronas Hill (Old Norse: rön, meaning stony...
Knowe of Yarso chamberedcairn is a Neolithic burial monument located on the island of Rousay in Orkney, Scotland. The site was excavated in the 1930s...
Hill Cairn, Firth". Orkneyjar. Retrieved 21 July 2012. "Cuween Hill ChamberedCairn". Historic Scotland. Retrieved 21 July 2012. "The Quoyness Cairn, Sanday"...
Bargrennan chambered cairns are a class of prehistoric chambered cairns found only in south-west Scotland, in western Dumfries and Galloway and southern...
The Cairn of Barnenez (also: Barnenez Tumulus, Barnenez Mound; in Breton Karn Barnenez; in French: Cairn de Barnenez or Tumulus de Barnenez) is a Neolithic...
might be a Neolithic chamberedcairn. The walls of the structure are more similar to the casement walls seen in Neolithic chambered cairns, which have a...
Torhousekie Stone Circle, both in Wigtownshire and Cairnholy (a Neolithic chamberedcairn). There is also evidence of one of the earliest pit-fall traps in Europe...
Aghnaskeagh Cairns is a chamberedcairn and portal tomb forming a national monument in County Louth, Ireland. Aghnaskeagh Cairns are located 2.1 km (1...
The Tomb of the Eagles, or Isbister ChamberedCairn, is a Neolithic chambered tomb located on a cliff edge at Isbister on South Ronaldsay in Orkney, Scotland...
element of some electric guitars Chamberedcairn or Chambered long barrow, types of megalithic burial monument Chambered nautilus (Nautilus pompilius),...
differs from that of Maeshowe, a chamberedcairn in Orkney, which is built so that sunlight will penetrate the cairn at the time of the winter solstice...
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