page_title: Chambered cairn
section_title: Hebridean
hierarchical_section_title: Chambered cairn / Scotland / Hebridean
caption_attribution_description: English: Chambered Cairn at Rubh' an Dunain. The entrance to the cairn 180697
context_page_description: 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.
  Typically, the chamber is larger than a cist, and will contain a larger number of interments, which are either excarnated bones or inhumations. Most were situated near a settlement, and served as that community's "graveyard".
context_section_description: Like the Shetland cairn the Hebridean group appear relatively late in the Neolithic. They are largely found in the Outer Hebrides, although a mixture of cairn types are found here. These passage graves are usually larger than the Shetland type and are round or have funnel-shaped forecourts, although a few are long cairns – perhaps originally circular but with later tails added. They often have a polygonal chamber and a short passage to one end of the cairn.
  The Rubha an Dùnain  peninsula on the island of  Skye provides an example from the 2nd or 3rd millennium BC. Barpa Langass on North Uist is the best preserved chambered cairn in the Hebrides.
caption: Chambered cairn at Rubha an Dùnain
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