Heel-shaped Cairn

The heel -shaped cairn ( heel -shaped cairn ) and its usually cross-shaped chamber are a common in Scotland, primarily in Caithness and Sutherland and in the Shetland Islands Megalithanlagenform. Orkney Isbister cairn is considered the only system that comes close to the mold.

The chambers are usually in a round cairn of broken stone that was either the same time or later, surrounded by the eponymous shoulder-like platform, with up to 20 m frontage and 1.0 to 1.5 m in height, which is partly taken by large curbs. A slightly concave Exedra is characteristic of the exedra.

The a short walk to reach, often cross-shaped chambers have a large head and two smaller side niches. They were covered with Kraggewölben, of which but usually only remnants are visible. The best-known plants of this type in the Shetlands are:

Gillaburn, Hill of Caldback, Hill of Dale, Mangaster, Muckle Heog, Pettigarth 's Field, punds Water, Water Turdale, Vementry, Viville hole, Ward of Silwicks and wind Hamars. The special form of the Cairn o ' Get ( also Garrywhin ) resembles a circular cairn, which was overbuilt with a double horned " Long Horned Cairn " with a round chamber, as he otherwise found in Sutherland ( Camster Round and Skelpick Long). With the investment of Vementry the round cairn was built over by the typical heel -shaped Cairns chamber in the heel -shaped form and thereby provided with about 10.6 m wide exedra.