A clearance cairn is an irregular and unstructured collection of fieldstones which have been removed from arable land or pasture to allow for more effective...
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marking system. Chambered cairn Clava cairn Clearance cairn Court cairn Pyramid Ring cairn Stupa Tumulus Unchambered long cairn Cairns can be seen as a...
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paddy field with an ard pulled by oxen Ploughing in Tigray, Ethiopia Clearance cairn – stones with ard marks Chisel plow, a modern type of non-moldboard...
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arable land or pasture to allow for more effective agriculture are called clearance cairns. In practice, fieldstone is any architectural stone used in its...
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leading to the gradual coalescence of vast systems of sunken fields or clearance cairns where only small parts were tilled at any one time. From the second...
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4000 BCE? to 42 CE?), a Bronze Age burial cairn datable to the period 2500 BCE to 701 BCE and a clearance cairn of unknown date. The valley retains some...
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a Bronze Age (2600 to 700 BC) clearance cairn field, which seems to indicate a particular plan, such as the clearance of a field for agriculture. The...
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5556 3.39 Kerb Cairn and Clearance Cairns - Hill of Urchany (Monument) (MHG7025) 4000 BC to 551 BC NH 8928 5067 3.41 Clearance Cairn - Dalbuie (Monument)...
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The archaeological investigations found a clearance cairn with late Bronze Age stone tools, a burial cairn with late Neolithic and early Bronze Age stone...
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stone circle) Kirkcudbrightshire Kirkcudbright RCAHMS classification: Clearance cairn(s), quarry Listed in Burl (2000): Yes Laggangarn NX 2223 7166 55°00′28″N...
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main settlement. Also, what is recorded as a clearance cairn 15 metres (49 ft) is situated nearby. This cairn has been claimed instead to be the site of...
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and Castle of Giffen A Montgomerie possession. Bourtreehill house Clearance cairn Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park Lands of Doura Drukken Steps Industry...
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from the Bronze Age, about 3000 years ago, in the form of field systems, clearance cairns and hut circles, of which there are several good examples in the...
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England. Retrieved 13 October 2024. Historic England. "Round cairn and clearance cairn 770m north west of Crookhill Farm (scheduled monument) (1019908)"...
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England. Retrieved 16 August 2020. Historic England. "Round cairn and clearance cairn 770m north west of Crookhill Farm (1019908)". National Heritage List...
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Rosal, Sutherland (section Clearance)
that was deserted after its residents were evicted during the Highland Clearances of the early 19th century. Rosal consists of approximately 80 acres (32 ha)...
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on the northwest side, through which a footpath passes today, is a clearance cairn, the remains of an outwork. There is no moat. Christoph Morrissey,...
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Isle of Whithorn (section The Cairn)
the ground between the Isle village and Saint Ninian's Chapel revealed Clearance cairns and cultivation furrows, as well as the remains of a rectangular...
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Glassonby (section Old Parks cairn)
Glassonby stone circle (actually a kerbed cairn) is at OS reference NY57293934 on private land. An oval cairn is surrounded by a ring of kerb stones (30...
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Norway–Sweden border (redirect from Stone Cairn (Riksrösen))
treaty gives the customs officers of one country the right to carry out clearance and checks for both countries. There are around 30 more roads crossing...
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Treriksröset, a concrete cairn where both countries border Sweden. The eastern tripoint is marked by Treriksrøysa, a stone cairn where both countries border...
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offshore holding company that owns sizable parts of Vedanta limited) Cairn India and Cairn energy India (oil and offshore exploration) Mines in Goa (currently...
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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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which is dominated by the mountain of Knocknarea to the west with the great cairn of Miosgán Médhbh on top. To the east, in Carns townland, two large cairns...
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National Historic Sites of Canada: the Bethune-Thompson House, the Glengarry Cairn, the Sir John Johnson House, and the ruins of St. Raphael's Roman Catholic...
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help family members seeking more information about their ancestors. The cairn at Hawkshaw has, over the years, become a place of pilgrimage for members...
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funerary cairn, standing stone and three stone banks south of Eller How, Burnmoor", "Prehistoric enclosure containing three hut circles and eight clearance cairns...
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'castle skerry' 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...
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Coilleag a' Phrionnsa ("The Cockel Strand of the Prince"). In 1995, a memorial cairn was erected at the site with an inscription that includes the first stanza...
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Midhowe Broch and Midhowe Chambered Cairn. Blackhammer Chambered Cairn, Taversoe Tuick, and Knowe of Yarso chambered cairn are important tombs. Rousay placenames...
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