Cairn
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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 Irish: carn.
A cairn a mile east of Nine Standards Rigg in the Yorkshire Dales.
One of the cairns at Carrowkeel Megalithic Cemetery in Ireland, which covers a passage tomb.
A cairn of the Neolithic-era passage tomb on Gavrinis island, Brittany
The biggest cairn in Ireland, Maeve's Cairn on Knocknarea.
Tumulus
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A tumulus is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds, mounds, howes, or in Siberia and Central Asia as kurgans, and may be found thro
Cairn
…A cairn () is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. The word cairn comes from the Irish: carn (plural cairn ). Cairns have been and are used for a broad variety of purposes. In prehistory, they were…
Tomb of King Alyattes at Bin Tepe in Lydia, modern Turkey, built c. 560 BC. It is one of the largest tumuli ever built, with a diameter of 360 meters and a height of 61 meters.
The Royal Mounds of Gamla Uppsala in Sweden from the 5th and 6th centuries. Originally, the site had 2,000 to 3,000 tumuli, but due to quarrying and agriculture only 250 remain.
La Cambe German war cemetery
One of the Hallstatt culture–era tumuli in the Sulm valley necropolis