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    from mainland Scotland. The Tomb of the Eagles on South Ronaldsay is a stalled cairn that shows some similarities with the later Maeshowe type. It was in...
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    chambered cairn on the small island of Holm of Papa Westray, a little east of Papay itself (and readily visible from the larger island). The long, stalled cairn...
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    chambered cairn is a Neolithic burial monument located on the island of Eday in Orkney, Scotland. It is an Orkney-Cromarty type stalled cairn, similar...
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    took place there. Further examples of megalithic tombs include the stalled cairn at Midhowe in Orkney and the passage grave at Bryn Celli Ddu on Anglesey...
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  • Quaternary Science, First published: 26 December 2019. "The Midhowe Stalled Cairn, Rousay". Orkneyjar. Retrieved 13 July 2012. Milisauskas, Sarunas (2002)...
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  • Barrow, Avebury" English Heritage. Retrieved 15 July 2012. "The Midhowe Stalled Cairn, Rousay". Orkneyjar. Retrieved 13 July 2012. "Tomb of the Eagles" tomboftheeagles...
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    Orkney–Cromarty chambered cairn. Tombs of this type are often referred to as "stalled" cairns due to their distinctive internal structure. Stalled cairns have a central...
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    type of chambered cairn. Tombs of this type are often referred to as "stalled" cairns due to their distinctive internal structure. Stalled cairns have a central...
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    The tomb, dating to the period between 3500 and 2500 BC, is a stalled chambered cairn, similar to Midhowe and Blackhammer. Historic Environment Scotland...
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    The heel-shaped cairn, with its usually cruciform chamber, is a type of megalithic monument that is found in Scotland, especially in Caithness and Sutherland...
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    20 metre long chambered cairn dating from approx. 3000 BC on whose stones one can find ancient carvings. The long, stalled cairn, built of local stone,...
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    Orkneyjar. Retrieved 13 July 2012. Wickham-Jones (2007) p. 40. "The Midhowe Stalled Cairn, Rousay". Orkneyjar. Retrieved 13 July 2012. Fraser, David (1980) Investigations...
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    constructed around 3000 BC, is a Orkney–Cromarty chambered cairn, characterized by stalled burial compartments. Historic Environment Scotland established...
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    Orkney–Cromarty chambered cairn. It dates from the Neolithic era, sometime during the years 3000 through 2001 BC. These tombs, often called "stalled cairns" are characterized...
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    stone circle on Stall Moor. "Stalldown Barrow, Dartmoor, Devon". The Guardian. 20 May 2006. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 3 February 2024. "Stall Moor, Stalldown...
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  • The Majorville Cairn and Medicine Wheel (Iniskim Umaapi) is an archaeological site of the Blackfoot Nation located south of Bassano, Alberta. The medicine...
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  • Shudder / Image Nation / Cinetic Media / AGC Studios Colin and Cameron Cairnes (directors/screenplay); David Dastmalchian, Laura Gordon, Ian Bliss, Fayssal...
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    features of both the Maeshowe subclass and the Orkney-Cromarty stalled subclasses of cairn. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Grooved Ware. Richard...
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    stone carved by Edward Power in 1858 was eventually incorporated into the cairn erected on the battlefield in 1881. An annual commemoration ceremony under...
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    of the General Staff; and four crew. The aircraft is believed to have stalled on its landing approach, when it was too low to recover. The deaths of...
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    Mummy Passage grave Rectangular dolmen Ring cairn Simple dolmen Stone box grave Tor cairn Unchambered long cairn Other cultural Archaeoastronomy sites lunar...
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    fortified, most notably a 210-meter tall hill known to the Russians as "Cairn Hill". The shorter lines were easier for the Russians to defend, but played...
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    "consists of at least two of the following three traits: (1) a central stone cairn, (2) one or more concentric stone circles, and/or (3) two or more stone...
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    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 circular mound, where...
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    Exploration in Block SL-2007-01-001 in Gulf of Mannar–Sri Lanka" (PDF). Cairn Lanka. 2009. pp. iv–vii. Archived from the original on 26 November 2013...
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  • population. 1665 Derby plague The bubonic plague spread north, but was stalled by the famous quarantine of Eyam. 1665–66 Long drought followed by a hot...
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    switch the autopilot to the INS mode (as they should have shortly after Cairn Mountain), or they did select the INS mode, but the computer did not transition...
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    Association Waterloo Attempts to build a dedicated club in Waterloo have stalled. Facebook group is dormant. Sioux City Curling Club Sioux City Arena Facebook...
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    this grave a rude monument was built of loose granite stones, creating a cairn. It was conical in form, fifty feet in circumference at the base, twelve...
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    number given the limited population of Upper Canada at that time. A small cairn at the foot of the Niagara Escarpment marks the spot where Brock fell. In...
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