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Tagsorkney-cromarty
7 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇬🇧 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 (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
Early–Middle Neolithic (c.3500 BCE) · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
23 m stalled chambered cairn — Orkney's longest — with 12 compartments and remains of 25 Neolithic burials.
🇬🇧 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
Early Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
Horned long stalled cairn 50 m long on Rousay, c.3600 BCE.
🇬🇧 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–Middle Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
Stalled cairn on Rousay with tripartite chamber, 29 burials, c.3500 BCE.
