Unchambered long cairn

The stone chamber loose Long Cairns form a group un - or semi- megalithic monuments, however, are counted to the British Megalitharchitektur in Scotland and Northern England. About 28 Long Cairns in the North and 21 in South Scotland show no evidence of built stone chambers. The existence of wooden chambers recorded among cairns is impossible without excavation. The exact distribution of the group of monuments can be thus determined heavy. Among the Cairns are three noteworthy:

• Dalla This in Kincardineshire, with cup-and -ring markings
• Slewcairn in Wigtownshire.
• Loch Hill in Kirkcudbrightshire.

All have narrow rectangular chambers, whose positions are marked by wooden posts. The latter two are particularly interesting because at a later date stone chambers were built into the hills. These make connections and intersections of ideas visible, which can be adopted by only type formation.

Although none of the northern cairn was excavated, its existence for the architectural history of Scotland is significant. The north is an area where primary passage tombs in round Cairns happen ( the Orkney - Cromarty type). Demonstrate more Periodic investments such as Tullow to t'Sionnaich that both forms are used by the same communities. Some round Cairns, like those of Camster were built over long cairns, so that the round hill represent the older form here. Many chamberless cairn and those with stone chambers have concave atria, which are reminiscent of those centuries have been previously built in wood construction ( Haddenham and Street House) in Yorkshire.