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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Unstan Chambered Cairn

Early Neolithic · Unstan Ware Neolithic

Eponymous stalled cairn at Stenness — 8.4 m five-compartment chamber where Unstan Ware was first identified.

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Unstan Chambered Cairn Stenness

Mid Neolithic (3450–2800 BCE) · Unstan Ware

Loch of Stenness-shore cairn excavated by Clouston 1884, style-site for Unstan pottery, yielding crouched burials and Grooved Ware later.

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Unstan Chambered Cairn — Stenness, Orkney

Early Neolithic (c.3600–3200 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic (Unstan Ware)

Unstan cairn (c.3600–3200 BCE, Early Neolithic) is a unique hybrid stalled-Orkney-Cromarty chambered cairn on a Loch of Stenness promontory 2 mi NE of Stromness, 13 m long dividing into five stalls…