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Rough stone monuments and their builders (1912)

Peet, T. Eric (Thomas Eric), 1882-1934 · London, New York : Harper & brothers · leaf 60

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ral are knownin the lowlands and in part of Argyllshire. To the long barrows of England answer in partat least the chambered cairns of Caithness andthe Orkneys. The best known type is a longrectangular horned cairn (Fig. 4), of which there 38 SCOTLAND AND IRELAND are two fine examples near… … Fig. 4. Horned tumulus at Garrywhin, Caithness.(After Montelius.) type is circular or elliptical. In a cairn of thissort at Camster an iron knife was found. On theHolm of Papa-Westra in the Orkneys there is anelliptical cairn of this kind containing a longrectangular chamber running along its…

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