Holm of Papa

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The small, uninhabited island of Holm of Papa ( also Holm of Papay called ) of Scottish Orkney can be visited ( with guide only ) from the East Pier of the neighboring island of Papa Westray, from which it lies a few hundred meters to the east.

Dis o'the Holm

The sight of only 1000 x 150 m small island is the megalithic "Dis o'the Holm" ( the Südcairn ), a 20 m long passage tomb. As with Isbister and Unstan is a chimera, similar to both the Orkney - Cromarty type as well as the Maeshowe type with the unusual length of access and chamber ( 20.4 m ) and the number of 12 side chambers (two double chambers ) and the central lateral approach.

The hill is 38 m long, 19.5 m wide and also due to the large chamber height (2.7 m) high, but not nearly as high as in Maeshowe. The roof has been restored with concrete and glass blocks. The modern approach is not done by the 9.1 m long, low, to the southeast (unlike Maeshowe ) directed transition, but from above. The walls of the chamber over collar and the upper, educated conclusion of falls has a width of 0.8 m. The muddy ground is in places covered with plastic tracks. When the plant was dug up in 1849, no artifacts were found.

At 11 stone carvings are located (eye diagrams, circles, dots and zigzag pattern).

North Cairn

The North Cairn is a plant of the Orkney - Cromarty type, known as a Stalled Cairn. The chamber has four side opposite boxes, an unusually narrow end chamber and a relatively long axial access. The rectangular mound is built in two stages and the final chamber is surrounded by the remains of an older round Cairns. A skull was in front of the entrance of the facility and the bones of a child were found in the fill layer of access. While new excavations the bones of at least eight people and a pile of shards easier pottery, and animal bones and fish bones were found. Outside were found shards of cups of Grooved Ware and Beaker. The entire structure with stones and earth, as well as shells and fish bones have been filled before it was discontinued.

Both systems come about by the transition from the 4th to the 3rd millennium BC