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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.3800–3300 BCE) · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic (Caithness)
Paired Loch Calder chambered cairns (round and long horned) rescued before reservoir flooding, with classic Orkney-Cromarty chambers.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (c.3200–2800 BCE, Norse reuse 12th c. CE) · Orcadian Neolithic (Grooved Ware) + Norse
Eynhallow chambered cairn (Maeshowe-type, c.3200–2800 BCE) is a 17-m Orkney-Cromarty stalled cairn on the uninhabited tidal island of Eynhallow in Eynhallow Sound, built of flagstone slabs with three…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
Triple-walled Orkney-Cromarty cairn near Kirkwall with 4.5 m passage to tripartite corbelled chamber.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (c.3200–2900 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic (Grooved Ware)
Cuween Hill cairn (c.3200–2900 BCE) is a Maeshowe-type chambered cairn 21 m diameter crowning Cuween Hill above Kirkwall, with a 8-m low entrance passage leading to a 6-m central chamber with four…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Orcadian Neolithic
Maeshowe-type hilltop cairn on Eday with four side cells, c.3200 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Kilmartin Early Neolithic
Neolithic chambered cairn at Kilmartin Glen's north-central linear cemetery, c.3800 BCE, defining the glen's axis.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Early Neolithic / Beaker
Chambered cairn beside A816 with three Bronze Age cists and 2021 animal carvings discovery.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware Orcadian
Finest Orkney chambered cairn: 36 m mound, long passage, corbelled chamber. Midwinter sunset illuminates chamber. Bears 12th-century Viking runic inscriptions (>30).
