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Cairn and Cist

Ancient burial place
Cairn and Cist
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Cairn and Cist is shown and named in a reusable Geograph picture. The saved point is the picture's recorded map point.
A Neolithic cairn with an associated stone cist, likely dating to the 4th to 3rd millennium BCE. Such monuments are significant as early funerary and ritual structures, reflecting communal burial practices and megalithic traditions in prehistoric Britain.

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Photo: Guy Wareham · CC BY-SA 2.0