Càrn na Marbh
Càrn na Marbh (meaning "mound" or "cairn of the dead") is a re-used Bronze Age tumulus, located in Fortingall in Perthshire, Scotland. The mound was used in the 14th century for burying victims of the plague away from the church graveyard. A stone, known as Clach a' Phlàigh, "the Plague Stone" crowns the mound and may be an original standing stone and commemorates the plague victims who were buried here in the 14th century. A tablet on the stone is inscribed with the words: "“Here lie the victims of the Great Plague of the 14th Century , taken here on a sledge drawn by a white horse led by an old woman.”" Local legend says it was the focal point of an ancient Samhain (Halloween) festival. A great fire or "Samhnag" was lit on top of it each year. The whole community took hands when it was blazing and danced round the mound both sunwise and anti-sunwise. The mound of ‘Càrn na Marbh’ is located in the same village as the Fortingall Yew, and the general area is famed for its Bronze Age burial mounds, and preserved standing stones. The site was Christianised during the Dark  Ages, perhaps because it was already a sacred place. Place-name and archaeological evidence hint at an Iron Age cult centre at Fortingall which may have had this ancient tree as its focus.