Cairnholy I Néolithique chambered cairn, Dumfries & Galloway, Écosse, Royaume-Uni, à la recherche de W depuis la piste, montrant les portails d'entrée, la dalle de blocage et la façade.
3780 x 2654 px | 32 x 22,5 cm | 12,6 x 8,8 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
23 août 1979
Lieu:
Cairn Holy Cairns, Kirkdale Glen, Creetown, Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
Informations supplémentaires:
Cairnholy I Neolithic chambered cairn, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, UK, looking W from the forecourt showing the entrance portal stones, fallen blocking stone & concave facade. The entrance opened on to the outer of two burial compartments. These features are at the E end of a robbed & mutilated Clyde-type long cairn (c 140ft/42m long x 33ft/10m wide) aligned E-W along the 400ft contour of a hill above the E shore of Wigtown Bay. Fragments of Neolithic pottery & cremated bone found in the burial chambers. Beaker pottery & a cup-and-ring stone suggest a secondary burial in the Bronze Age. The earliest phase of the monument may have been the inner (W) burial compartment within a small cairn, the outer chamber (E), facade & long cairn added later. After the final burial the entrance was blocked with a tall slab & the forecourt area filled with stones. Cairnholy II chambered cairn lies some 500ft/152m to the N.
