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• A cist may have formerly been associated with other monuments, perhaps under a cairn or a long barrow.
• A chambered cairn is a burial monument, usually constructed during the Neolithic, consisting of a sizeable (usually stone) chamber around and over which a cairn of stones was constructed.
• A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound.
• In the archaeology of Scotland, it gives its name to the Maeshowe type of chambered cairn, which is limited to Orkney.
• It has been speculated that this cairn is near Boyle in County Roscommon, or that it is Cnoc Meadha in County Galway.
• It consists of nineteen boulders up to 5 feet high aligned to the winter solstice, surrounding a ring cairn on which there are 3 large stones (flankers), two upright and one recumbent.
• The runic characters list the names of three Norsemen and mention the construction of a rock cairn nearby.
• In the spring of 1870, four Vendel era cast-bronze dies, the Torslunda plates, were found by Erik Gustaf Pettersson and Anders Petter Nilsson in a cairn on the lands of the farm No 5 Björnhovda in Torslunda parish, Öland, Sweden, one of them showing what appears to be a berserker ritual.
• It has also been suggested that the holed stone could have been a capstone for the nearby cairn before being moved to its present position.
• The numbered roadhouse names of the Cariboo district became measured from the bend in Main Street commemorated by a cairn erected in 1939.
• She heaped a cairn of stones over his tomb, which formed the hill on which the Cathedral of Revel now stands.
• 3m high boundary marker on Bamford Moor is an embanked stone circle or possibly a ring cairn between 11m and 10m diameter.
• Shortly after leaving his post as Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land, Franklin revisited a cairn on Arthurs Seat, a small mountain just inside Port Phillip Bay in Victoria, Australia, that he had visited as a midshipman with Captain Matthew Flinders in April 1802.
• The five types of neolithic tombs found in Korea include dolmen or menhir, cist, cairn, urn, and wooden chamber.
• The murder of Wulfad in the 7th century and his subsequent entombment under a cairn of stones is the traditional story (described as 'historically valueless' by Thacker 1985: 6).
• The cairn marking the trail's terminus is in a parking lot, about 160 metres (520 ft) from General Brock's Monument on the easterly side of the monument's park grounds.

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