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    Parc Cwm long cairn (Welsh: carn hir Parc Cwm), also known as Parc le Breos burial chamber (siambr gladdu Parc le Breos), is a partly restored Neolithic...
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    Present (BP). In 1937 the Parc Cwm long cairn was identified as a Severn-Cotswold type of chambered long barrow. Also known as Parc le Breos burial chamber...
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    Meiriadog Siambr gladdu Hendre-Waelod, Llansanffraid Glan Conwy Parc Cwm long cairn, Parc le Breos, Gower Peninsula Siambr gladdu Cefn Bryn, Llanilltud...
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    Parc Cwm long cairn or Parc le Breos burial chamber (after the park) – about 200 yards (183 m) south of The Cathole Cave, along the Parc le Breos Cwm...
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    Musculoskeletal analysis of the human remains found at Parc Cwm long cairn (carn hir Parc Cwm), Gower, has shown significant gender lifestyle variation...
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    (near Creigiau)); and Severn-Cotswold chamber tombs (e.g. Parc Cwm long cairn, (Parc le Breos Cwm, Gower Peninsula), and Tinkinswood burial chamber (Vale...
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    Barnenez (redirect from Cairn of Barnenez)
    The Cairn of Barnenez (also: Barnenez Tumulus, Barnenez Mound; in Breton Karn Barnenez; in French: Cairn de Barnenez or Tumulus de Barnenez) is a Neolithic...
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    1st-millennium BCE Canaanite shrine Inuksuk – Inuit built stone landmark or cairn Kigilyakh – Natural tall rock pillars in Yakutia Ley line – Straight alignments...
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    Gavrinis (section The cairn)
    by cairn material, is also decorated, but in a different style from their internal face. This decoration must have been applied before the cairn was...
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    production, and built cromlechs such as Pentre Ifan, Bryn Celli Ddu, and Parc Cwm long cairn between about 5,800 BP and 5,500 BP. Over the following centuries...
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    in Nordic megalith architecture Inuksuk – Inuit built stone landmark or cairn Polygonal dolmen – Type of dolmen with five to nine supporting stones Rectangular...
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    small bowls and, most remarkably, ivory pins up to 25 centimetres (9.8 in) long. These pins are very similar to examples found in passage graves in the Boyne...
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    Neolithic, people built a causewayed enclosure at Robin Hood's Ball, and long barrow tombs in the surrounding landscape. In approximately 3500 BC, a Stonehenge...
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    Parkmill (redirect from Melin y Parc)
    riding) centre called Parc le Breos, built about one mile (1.6 km) east north east of Parkmill The Parc Cwm long cairn, or Parc le Breos burial chamber...
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    originally, it would have been covered with soil, and its flagstone capped by a cairn. When the site was excavated in 1986 and again in 1988, around 33 human...
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    supported by three, four, or more standing stones. They were covered by a stone cairn or earth barrow. In Italy, dolmens can be found especially in Sardinia....
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    the tip of the isthmus formed between the two lochs. Maeshowe chambered cairn is about 1.2 km (0.75 mi) to the east of the Standing Stones of Stenness...
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    the locality under which it lies, namely Ħal Saflieni, a village that no longer exists. Ħal means "village" and saflieni means "low"; as both words are...
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    long. This was built later than the stone circle and is squashed in between the eastern stones and the central monolith. There is another stone cairn...
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    (Spanish: Dolmen de Menga) is a megalithic burial mound called a tumulus, a long barrow form of dolmen, dating from 3750–3650 BCE approximately. It is near...
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    finely-made and decorated Unstan ware pottery link the inhabitants to chambered cairn tombs nearby and to sites far afield including Balbridie and Eilean Domhnuill...
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    Er-Grah tumulus is 140 metres (460 ft) long. It was probably originally constructed in the fifth millennium BC as a cairn, which was extended in both directions...
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    diametrically opposite to the tall flankers. The circle commonly contains a ring cairn and cremation remains. Irish axial stone circles are found in Cork and Kerry...
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    Cathole Cave, Cat Hole Cave or Cathole Rock Cave, is a cave near Parc Cwm long cairn at Parc le Breos, on the Gower Peninsula, Wales. It is a steep limestone...
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  • side of the structures, which are similar to those at Salweyn, a great cairn-held situated close to Heis. Besides cairns, the Botiala area also features...
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    The Tomb of the Eagles, or Isbister Chambered Cairn, is a Neolithic chambered tomb located on a cliff edge at Isbister on South Ronaldsay in Orkney, Scotland...
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    long broken capstone. It is named after the nearby Chapelle de La Madeleine, which is still used. A rare dolmen still covered by its original cairn....
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    The West Kennet Long Barrow, also known as South Long Barrow, is a chambered long barrow near the village of Avebury in the south-western English county...
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    landscape containing several older monuments nearby, including West Kennet Long Barrow, Windmill Hill and Silbury Hill. By the Iron Age, the site had been...
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    Crosses Upper Killay Prehistoric sites Arthur's Stone Long Hole Cave Parc le Breos Parc Cwm long cairn Paviland Cave Castles Loughor Castle Oxwich Castle...
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