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Breascleit Cairn

Ancient tomb or cairn
Breascleit Cairn
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A named place photographed at this map point in Na h-Eileanan Siar.
Neolithic chambered cairn; dates to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. It is significant as part of the early megalithic tradition in the Western Isles, reflecting early communal burial practices and social organisation in prehistoric Scotland.

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Photo: Gerald Ponting · CC BY-SA 2.0