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Chambered cairns tagged “rousay”

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Chambered cairns4 Megaliths4 Broches1 Passage graves1 Stalled cairns1

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neolithic4 rousay4 orkney3 orkney cromarty2 stalled cairn2 horned cairn1 long cairn1 maeshowe

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Chambered cairns

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Taversoe Tuick Chambered Cairn

Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware / Maeshowe tradition

Rousay's unique two-storey cairn — lower and upper chambers stacked in 15 m round mound.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Knowe of Lairo Chambered Cairn

Early Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic

Horned long stalled cairn 50 m long on Rousay, c.3600 BCE.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn

Early–Middle Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic

Stalled cairn on Rousay with tripartite chamber, 29 burials, c.3500 BCE.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Blackhammer Chambered Cairn

Early Neolithic · Orkney Cromarty stalled tradition

Rousay stalled cairn — 13 m seven-compartment chamber under 22 m mound on south coast.