• Unstan may refer to: Unstan chambered cairn Unstan ware This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Unstan. If an internal link led...
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    Examples include Midhowe on Rousay, and both the Unstan Chambered Cairn and Wideford Hill chambered cairn from the Orkney Mainland, both of which date from...
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    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...
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    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...
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    the surfaces to make them shiny and impermeable. Unstan ware is named after the Unstan Chambered Cairn on the Mainland of the Orkney Islands, a fine example...
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    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...
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    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...
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    House, Eday in 1938. Vinquoy chambered cairn Unstan chambered cairn Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn Midhowe Chambered Cairn Henshall, Audrey (1985). The Chambered...
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    a smaller, second chamber. Huntersquoy chambered cairn Midhowe Chambered Cairn Unstan chambered cairn "North Isles-Eday" (PDF). Orkney Guide.com. Retrieved...
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  • Orkney. Glasgow Archaeological Journal. 7 p. 13. ISSN 1471-5767 "Unstan Chambered Cairn". Historic Scotland. Retrieved 21 July 2012. Wickham-Jones, Caroline...
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    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...
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    over the world. When a passage grave is covered in stone, it is a type of cairn. The building of passage graves was normally carried out with megaliths...
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    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...
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    from the 2012 excavation of the cairn to the data from the 2015 excavation season. In 2015 the section of the cairn that had been excavated in 2012 was...
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    boats using lines. Finely made and decorated Unstan ware pottery links the inhabitants to chambered cairn tombs nearby and to sites far afield, including...
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    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...
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    may be covered with an earthen mound (or "tumulus") or rock mound (or "cairn"). Archeologist T. Douglas Price argues that the gallery grave was a form...
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    amber use Mirrors Pottery Cardium Cord-marked Grooved ware Jōmon Linear Unstan ware Sewing needle Weaving Wine winery wine press Prehistoric art Art of...
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  • Neolithic stone circle and henge. Clava cairn, Bronze Age circular chamber tomb cairn. Devil's Lapful, Neolithic long cairn in Northumberland. Duggleby Howe...
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    chambered cairn Rinyo Rousay Tomb of the Eagles Unstan Chambered Cairn Unstan ware Vinquoy chambered cairn Westray Wife Wideford Hill chambered cairn Iron...
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    Blackhammer Chambered Cairn is a Neolithic chambered cairn located on the island of Rousay, in Orkney, Scotland. The tomb, constructed around 3000 BC,...
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    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...
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  • peristalith is the name for a stone ring built to enclose and sometimes revet the cairn or barrow built over a chamber tomb. European dolmens, especially hunebed...
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    used various terms to describe them. Petroforms can also include a rock cairn or inukshuk, an upright monolith slab, a medicine wheel, a fire pit, a desert...
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    Lowick, and Bridlington. A single example was found in Norway in a medieval cairn; it is thought most likely that this had been acquired and carried home...
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    Long barrow (redirect from Long Cairn)
    Gloucestershire and Hereford, howe in Northern England and Scotland, and cairn in Scotland. Another term to have achieved international usage has been...
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