A chambered cairn is a burial monument, usually constructed during the Neolithic, consisting of a sizeable (usually stone) chamber around and over which...

Unstan (or Onstan, or Onston) is a Neolithic chambered cairn located about 2 mi (3 km) north-east of Stromness on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. The tomb...

walls, meant to be seen. Unstan ware is named after the Unstan Chambered Cairn on the Mainland of the Orkney Islands. Unstan, where the style of pottery...

impermeable. Unstan ware is named after the Unstan Chambered Cairn on the Mainland of the Orkney Islands, a fine example of a stalled chambered tomb in a...

Unstan may refer to: Unstan chambered cairn Unstan ware This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Unstan. If an internal link led...

Midhowe Chambered Cairn Unstan chambered cairn "North Isles-Eday" (PDF). Orkney Guide.com. Retrieved 7 April 2022. "Carrick Farm,chambered cairn and cairn 500m...

Vinquoy chambered cairn Unstan chambered cairn Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn Midhowe Chambered Cairn Henshall, Audrey (1985). The Chambered Cairns, in:...

Blackhammer Chambered Cairn is a Neolithic chambered cairn located on the island of Rousay, in Orkney, Scotland. The tomb, constructed around 3000 BC,...

Knowe of Yarso chambered cairn is a Neolithic burial monument located on the island of Rousay in Orkney, Scotland. The site was excavated in the 1930s...

Orkney. Glasgow Archaeological Journal. 7 p. 13. ISSN 1471-5767 "Unstan Chambered Cairn". Historic Scotland. Retrieved 21 July 2012. Wickham-Jones, Caroline...

The court cairn or court tomb is a megalithic type of chambered cairn or gallery grave. During the period, 3900–3500 BC, more than 390 court cairns were...

the chambered long barrows should be clustered in certain areas rather than being evenly distributed throughout the landscape. Many of the chambered long...

Orkney. Glasgow Archaeological Journal. 7 p. 13. ISSN 1471-5767 "Unstan Chambered Cairn". Historic Scotland. Retrieved 21 July 2012. Wickham-Jones (2007)...

Avebury" English Heritage. Retrieved 15 July 2012. "The Midhowe Stalled Cairn, Rousay". Orkneyjar. Retrieved 13 July 2012. "Tomb of the Eagles" tomboftheeagles...

axes found their way to Orkney. Unstan ware, a variation on grooved ware, emerged in Orkney. The people who used Unstan ware had totally different burial...

The Clava cairn is a type of Bronze Age circular chamber tomb cairn, named after the group of three cairns at Balnuaran of Clava, to the east of Inverness...

midsummer sunset shines along the passageway, with similarities to some chambered cairns. The structure was surrounded by a clay platform. The entrance...

might be a Neolithic chambered cairn. The walls of the structure are more similar to the casement walls seen in Neolithic chambered cairns, which have a...

using boats. Finds of finely-made and decorated Unstan ware pottery link the inhabitants to chambered cairn tombs nearby and to sites far afield including...

stone chambers. However, proving the existence of wooden chambers under a cairn is not possible without excavation work. The exact classification of this...

Taversöe Tuick Chambered Cairn Neolithic chambered cairn Tormiston Mill A late example of a Scottish watermill Unstan Chambered Cairn A mound covering...

for a stone ring built to enclose and sometimes revet the cairn or barrow built over a chamber tomb. European dolmens, especially hunebed and dyss burials...

term passage tomb cemeteries. Passage tombs in Ireland Entrance grave Chambered cairn More technically called a tumulus, and also referred to as a barrow...

Finely made and decorated Unstan ware, survives from the fourth and third millennia BCE and is named after the Unstan Chambered Cairn on the Mainland of the...

village at Skara Brae lies a few kilometres away, as does the chambered cairn at Unstan. More archaeology is probably submerged beneath the lochs. In...

burial chamber in Pembrokeshire. Lanyon Quoit, dolmen. Lugbury Long Barrow, Neolithic burial mound in Wiltshire. Maeshowe, Neolithic chambered cairn and...

monuments, perhaps under a cairn or a long barrow. Several cists are sometimes found close together within the same cairn or barrow. Often ornaments have...

boats using lines. Finely made and decorated Unstan ware pottery links the inhabitants to chambered cairn tombs nearby and to sites far afield, including...

ancient monument that can be visited is a well-preserved Neolithic chambered cairn on the small island of Holm of Papa Westray, a little east of Papay...

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