Burial Cairn Pictures, Images and Stock Photos

Ancient portal dolmen, megalithic tomb, The Burren, Country Clare, Republic of Ireland.

The approach to the ancient chambered cairn Maeshowe in the Orkney Islands off the north coast of Scotland. This monument in the heart of the Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site is believed to have been built around 5000 years ago. A plain grassy mound on the outside, inside it is an astonishing piece of stone-age architecture dating to before the pyramids. It was sealed up in the neolithic period, but broken into by vikings in the 11th century; their graffiti inside the tomb makes up the largest collection of runic inscriptions outside of Scandanavia.

delightful arched building in Regal City Palace, Jaipur, containing Chandra Mahal and Mubarak Mahal palaces amid a huge complex, still used as a royal residence. built by Vidyadar Bhattachary for Maharaja of Jaipur in 1732,a prime example of Shilpa Shastra and Indian architecture with Rajput Mughal and European styles of architecture.

Oaxaca, Mexico 01.11.2014: Túmulo enfeitado em cemitério de Oaxaca de Juarez, no México, durante a celebração do Dia dos Mortos. Segundo a tradição do país, iniciada no período pré-hispânico, nesta os cemitérios são enfeitados para receber os espíritos dos mortos que nas noites dos dias 01 e 02 de novembro regressam para visitar os entes queridos. *** Decorated tomb in the cemetery of Oaxaca de Juarez, Mexico, during the celebration of Day of the Dead. According to the country's tradition, which began in the pre-Hispanic period, this cemeteries are decorated to welcome the spirits of the dead that on the nights of days 01 and November 2 return to visit loved ones.

Sheep and goat at the bay called Camas nan Geall, Ardnamurchan, Scotland

This sacred stone circle is one of Scotland’s most evocative prehistoric monuments. The Bronze Age burial site known as Balnuaran of Clava or Clava Cairns. Groups of circular pits and standing stones aligned with the Winter Solstice Sun. Here we see one middle aged Woman looking at the North-East Cairn. There is a free right of access to the public, with no controls or restrictions on the area.

Clava Cairns bronze age stones outside Culloden, Inverness, Scotland.

A very old dolmen situated in a place near Barcelona (Spain)

Faroe Island Koltur Island Sunset View Panorama from Nordredal Valley - Norðradalur towards the North Atlantic Ocean. Cairn - Pile of Stones on the top of the Norðradalur valley in the foreground, Panorama XXL. Cairn on Streymoy Island, Nordredal Valley, Faroe Islands, Kingdom of Denmark, Nordic Countries, Europe

The Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple or Thiruvarangam Tamil

Dolmen La Roche aux Fees or The Fairies' Rock is a Neolithic passage grave - dolmen - located in the commune of Esse, in the French department of Ille-et-Vilaine in Brittany

Ancient, dating back to 3000 BCE, neolithic burial chambers and stone circles of Loughcrew Cairns with dramatic, dark sky in County Meath, Ireland

Celtic patterns adorn the entrance stone to the passage tomb at Loughcrew, Ireland.

A beautiful Cairn in the heart of Paimpont.

Culloden, Scotland-: Balnuaran of Clava is the location of several end Neolithic megalithic plants in Strathnairn, Scotland.

Camster Long Cairn was built over 4500 years ago. It is a burial tomb of the New Stone Age people, and is one of the best preserved in the UK.

Culloden, Scotland-: Balnuaran of Clava is the location of several end Neolithic megalithic plants in Strathnairn, Scotland.

This ancient monument is a combination of a burial mound with a stone circle of slabs sticking out like a crown of thorns. Set in a scenic landscape with the sea to the south and mount Snowdon to the north.

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The ancient site of Temple Wood at Kilmartin Glen, Argyll, Scotland. In use since the Neolithic, or Stone Age from about 5,000 years ago. The ring of standing stones around a cobbled area an inner marker stones surrounds a central cist or stone lined burial chamber.

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The Cairn of Barnenez is a Neolithic monument located near Plouezoc'h, on the Kernéléhen peninsula in northern Finistère, Brittany (France). It dates to the early Neolithic, about 4800 BC; it is considered one of the earliest megalithic monuments in Europe, as well as one of the oldest man-made structures in the world.

Moai on Easter Island. Ahu Tongariki

Ancient portal dolmen, megalithic tomb, The Burren, Country Clare, Republic of Ireland.

Clava Cairns near Culloden battlefield - Inverness, Scotland, UK

Cairns showing where British soldiers fell during their clash with the Zulu at Isandlwana on 22 January 1879.

"Cullerlie prehistoric stone circle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.The eight stones of the stone circle, measuring about 10 metres or 35 feet in diameter, were placed here around 4000 years ago. At a later period, about 3500 years ago, the site was reused for cremation burials and the remains of 8 kerbed cairns are visible. Human remains were found in five of the cairns."

celtic stone cairn called Queen Maeve’s Grave on Knocknarea mountain summit in County Sligo, northwestern Ireland

Ballynoe stone circle, a prehistoric Bronze Age burial mound surrounded by a circular structure of standing stones dating from the Neolithic period, County Down, Nothern Ireland

"The ancient site of Temple Wood at Kilmartin Glen, Argyll, Scotland. In use since the Neolithic, or Stone Age from about 5,000 years ago. The ring of standing stones around a cobbled area an inner marker stones surrounds a central cist or stone lined burial chamber."

A standing stone - part of the portal of a Bronze Age burial cairn - overlooking the River Clyde. Shot on infrared film.From a medium-format negative.

A tiny prehistoric monument, Arthur's Stone.

The prehistoric stones and megalith monuments at Lancken Granitz on the baltic sea island Ruegen

The Great Broken Menhir of Er Grah, located on the territory of the municipality of Locmariaquer, in Morbihan, is a menhir of exceptional dimensions, the largest in Europe: 18.5 m high when it was erected (20 , 4 m earthen part included), 3 m wide, estimated mass of 280 tonnes. This menhir, whose erection dates back to the middle of the 5th millennium BC. AD is now on the ground and broken into four pieces. It stood in the middle of a monumental ensemble exceptionally associating, in the same place, the three families of megalithic monuments: the Er Grah tumulus, the cairn of the Merchant's Table, the large broken menhir.

Deadwood, South Dakota, USA - November 1, 2015: Tombstone of Calamity Jane, at the Mount Moriah Cemetery

Gravestones and monuments around the sphinx-shaped hill of Isandlwana in Zululand. After invading Zululand in order to topple their ally, the Zulu king Cetshwayo kaMpande, the British Empire army (24th regiment) was attacked in the foothills by the Zulu army on 22 January 1879. 1300 British and their allies were killed, and 1000 Zulu were killed. The British were completely routed and had to re-stage the invasion at a later date.

Brezova Pod Bradlom, Slovakia - April 1, 2024: The grave of Milan Rastislav Stefanik, monumental tomb.

St Lythans Burial Chamber, also called gwal-y-filiast, chambered long cairn. South Wales, United Kingdom. Copyspace.

Photographs of the dolmen Sorginetxe at dusk and storm clouds

The Brownshill Dolmen, officially known as Kernanstown Cromlech, a magnificent megalithic granite capstone, weighing about 103 tonnes, located in County Carlow, Ireland

Megalithic grave mound Tumulus of St Michel with chapel of Saint Michel near Carnac in Brittany, France. It is the largest grave mound in Europe.

This is the north-east cairn of the three at the Balnuran of Clava Bronze Age cemetery, near Inverness. This is the cairn nearest to the car park on the site. There is a notable cup-and-ring decorated kerb-stone on the north side of this cairn, at the back of the site as seen here. Cairns within a ring of standing stones are unusual, this type of prehistoric design is called a Clava-type cairn named after this group of sites. This ancient monument is in the care of Historic Scotland, and can be found near the Culloden battlefield

Clava Cairns Monument near Culloden, Scotland

Sheep and goat at the bay called Camas nan Geall, Ardnamurchan, Scotland

The cairn of Gavrinis is located on the island of Gavrinis located in the central part of the Gulf of Morbihan.

The cairn of Gavrinis is located on the island of Gavrinis located in the central part of the Gulf of Morbihan.

Culloden, Scotland-: Balnuaran of Clava is the location of several end Neolithic megalithic plants in Strathnairn, Scotland.

Temple Wood Stone Circle was built befor 3000 bc and was excavated and repaired in the 19th century.

Neolithic South Chambered Cairn at Nether Largie prehistoric site Kilmartin Glen near Kintyre, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK

The Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple or Thiruvarangam Tamil is a Hindu temple dedicated to Ranganatha, a reclining form of Hindu deity, Constructed in the Dravidian style of architecture, The main entrance, known as the Rajagopuram (the royal temple tower), rises from the base area of around 13 cents (around 5720 sq ft) and goes up to 237 feet (72 m), moving up in eleven progressively smaller tiers. The temple occupies an area of 156 acres with a perimeter of 4,116m making it the largest temple in India and one of the largest religious complexes in the world