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Tagslong-cairn
7 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.3800–3500 BCE) · Cotswold-Severn Neolithic
Ruined 110 m long Cotswold-Severn chambered cairn on Cheshire border — four portal stones survive of vast ridge cairn.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.3800–3600 BCE) · Neolithic Anglesey
Twin Neolithic chamber tombs in single long cairn near Presaddfed — west chamber with 5 m capstone best preserved.
🇬🇧 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
Neolithic (c.3500–3000 BCE) · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic (Caithness)
Flow Country pair of vast Orkney-Cromarty cairns — 60 m long horned cairn with two chambers and intact round cairn.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
Horned long stalled cairn 50 m long on Rousay, c.3600 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
Coastal long stalled cairn on Westray eroding at Point of Cott, c.3600 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Severn-Cotswold Neolithic
Severn-Cotswold long cairn near Cardiff with Britain's largest capstone at 40 tonnes.
