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Places tagged sacred islet · Mysteria

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#sacred islet

1 place carries this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.

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Chambered cairns1 Megaliths1 Stalled cairns1

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Holm of Papa Westray North Cairn

Early Neolithic · Orkney Early Neolithic

20 m stalled long cairn on uninhabited holm off Papa Westray — paired with South cairn 200 m away.