• The Cairn on the Headland is a short story by American writer Robert E. Howard, with elements of fantasy and horror. As often in Howard stories, there...
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    sorelle Brontë The Cairn on the Headland, Project Gutenberg Australia. Accessed on 3 May 2020. Ó Donnchadha, Gearóid. St Brendan of Kerry, the Navigator....
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  • available source texts, on wikisource or Project Gutenberg of Australia, are included in a separate column. These are marked with the appropriate icons. Howard's...
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  • Howard The Black Stone The Valley of the Worm Wolfshead The Fire of Asshurbanipal The House of Arabu The Horror from the Mound The Cairn on the Headland Howard...
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    Robert E. Howard (category Conan the Barbarian novelists)
    (beginning with "The Black Stone", his Mythos stories also included "The Cairn on the Headland", "The Children of the Night" and "The Fire of Asshurbanipal")...
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  • it a third time, as a horror story called The Cairn on the Headland, and that version was published in the January, 1933 issue of Strange Tales. Howard's...
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  • Turlogh Dubh O'Brien (category Fiction set in the 11th century)
    and the other The Cairn on the Headland is a modern horror story that Howard saw published in Strange Tales (Jan., 1933). The Twilight of the Grey Gods...
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    Brian Boru (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    such as the appearance of the God Odin and retitled "The Grey God Passes". "The Cairn on the Headland" is a sequel to the latter set in the present day...
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  • Hoffmann Price "Wolfshead" "The Black Stone" "The Horror from the Mound" "The Cairn on the Headland" "Black Canaan" "The Fire of Asshurbanipal" "A Man-Eating...
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    Cape Christiansen (category Headlands of Greenland)
    1882. The cairn was surveyed by Robert Peary in 1900 and by Lauge Koch in 1921. Cape Kane is the headland on the eastern side of Conger Sound, at the northern...
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  • Treshnish Isles (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    respectively. Cairn na Burgh Mòr means 'cairn of the large fort' and Cairn na Burgh Beg is thus 'cairn of the small fort'. The name Fladda originates from the Old...
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    Gulf of Valencia (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    limits are the Cap de la Nau headland in the south, while the northern limit is diffuse: for some it is the Cape of Vinaròs; and for others it is the Ebre Delta...
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    Achduart (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    Hostels Association. The name of Achduart comes from the Gaelic for "the field at the black headland". Achduart was part of the Estate of Coigach, Lochbroom...
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    Mizen Head (category Headlands of County Cork)
    to the point as the "southern headland" (Ancient Greek: Νότιον ἄκρον, romanized: Notion akron). The headland's Irish name, Carn Uí Néid, means "cairn of...
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    Bradda Head (category Headlands of the Isle of Man)
    rugged headland in the south-west of the Isle of Man, in the British Isles, rising to a height of 382 feet (116 m). It shelters Port Erin Bay from the north...
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    Mumbles (redirect from The Mumbles)
    a headland sited on the western edge of Swansea Bay on the southern coast of Wales. Mumbles has been noted for its unusual place name. The headland is...
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    Howth Head (category Headlands of the Republic of Ireland)
    the city of Dublin in Ireland, within the governance of Fingal County Council. Entry to the headland is at Sutton while the village of Howth and the harbour...
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    and on the Blaeu map of 1600, a headland exists at the point where the Old Man is now. The McKenzie map of Hoy of 1750 similarly shows a headland but...
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  • Headland Archaeology Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of the RSK Group. Headland provides archaeological services and heritage advice to the construction...
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    Sheep's Head (category Headlands of County Cork)
    Bháire), is the headland at the end of the Sheep's Head peninsula situated between Bantry Bay and Dunmanus Bay in County Cork, Ireland. The peninsula is...
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  • The geology of the United Kingdom is such that there are many headlands along its coast. This incomplete list includes both major and minor headlands...
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    Scafell Pike (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    form Skallfield. An alternative derivation is from the Old Norse "skagi", meaning a cape, headland, promontory or peninsula, so giving an etymology that...
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    Barrenjoey Head Lighthouse (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    the following year. The Gledhill Lookout Cairn is built from stone taken from the first lighthouse. Other features on the headland summit include the...
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    Gower Peninsula (redirect from The Gower)
    Howes on Rhossili Down, Penmaen Burrows Tomb (Pen-y-Crug) and Nicholaston Long Cairn are three other well-known Neolithic chambered tombs. During the Bronze...
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    Hookney Tor (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    situated on Dartmoor in Devon, England. It lies on the Two Moors Way and remains of Headland Warren farm and Vitifer Mine are also in the valley nearby...
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    Cook's Landing Place, Town of Seventeen Seventy (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    was launched on 1 September 1925, and proved so popular that a cairn was ordered the following month. This was erected early in 1926, on the point of land...
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    Mumbles (district) (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    the same name. At the 2001 census the population was 16,774, reduced slightly to 16,600 at the 2011 Census. The district is named after the headland of...
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    Wyckoff Land (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    discovered on the headland. Wyckoff Land lies in northern Herluf Trolle Land, by the northeastern shore of Peary Land, between G.B. Schley Fjord to the west...
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    2000–2001 by the Centre for Field Archaeology (CFA), the University of Edinburgh, and Headland Archaeology Ltd, which found a Bronze Age kerb cairn, turf buildings...
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  • Lady's Holm (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    Stack" It is to the west of Scat Ness and the village of Scatness, a headland on Mainland, and there is also another islet nearby, Little Holm. Sumburgh...
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