A chambered cairn is a burial monument, usually constructed during the Neolithic, consisting of a sizeable chamber around and over which a cairn of stones was constructed. Some chambered cairns are also passage-graves. They are found throughout Britain and Ireland, with the largest number in Scotland.
Cairn Holy I., Galloway
Cairnholy II – a chambered cairn near Newton Stewart.
Entrance to Unstan Chambered Cairn, Orkney
The interior of Maeshowe
A cairn is a human-made pile of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. The word cairn comes from the Scottish Gaelic: càrn.
A cairn marking a mountain summit in Graubünden, Switzerland.
The biggest cairn in Ireland, Maeve's Cairn on Knocknarea.
One of the cairns at Carrowkeel Megalithic Cemetery in Ireland, which covers a passage tomb.
Cairn of the Neolithic-era passage tomb on Gavrinis island, Brittany