The Glasgow Necropolis is a Victorian age cemetery on a low but very prominent hill to the east of Glasgow Cathedral. Fifty t ...
The Howff is a burial ground in Dundee. Established in 1564, it has one of the most important collections of tombstones in Sc ...
The Skelmorlie Aisle of Largs Old Kirk is the remains of a church in the town of Largs. It contains a notable monument built ...
The Clava cairn is a type of Bronze Age circular chamber tomb cairn, named after the group of 3 cairns at Balnuaran of Clava, ...
Mussenden Temple is a small circular building located on cliffs near Castlerock in County Londonderry, high above the Atlanti ...
Outside Down Cathedral on the highest part of Cathedral Hill lies the grave of Saint Patrick, the apostle of Ireland. By the ...
Hamilton Mausoleum was the resting place of the family of the Dukes of Hamilton. Built in the grounds of the now-demolished H ...
Huly Hill is a 30 metre diameter earthen burial mound, surrounded by a modern retaining wall. At its highest it is around 3 m ...
Cairnpapple Hill is a hill with a dominating position in central lowland Scotland with views from coast to coast. It was used ...
Maeshowe is a Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave. It was probably built around 2800 BCE. It gives its name to the Ma ...
Ballowall Barrow is a prehistoric funerary cairn (chambered tomb) containing several phases of use from the Neolithic to the ...
Blackhammer Chambered Cairn is a Neolithic cairn on Rousay. It is thought to date from around 3000 BC. The structure is a typ ...
The Tregiffian Burial Chamber is a Neolithic or early Bronze Age chambered tomb. It is a rare form of a passage grave, known ...
Unstan is a particularly well preserved Neolithic chambered cairn, and somewhat unusual, example of an Orkney–Cromarty ...
The Grey Cairns of Camster are two large Neolithic chambered cairns in the Highland region of Scotland. They are among the ol ...
Built some 4,000 years ago, Corrimony Cairn is a passage grave of the Clava type. Built by neolithic farmers, skilled in work ...
La Varde is an 11m long bottle shaped passage grave with 6 capstones and a small oval recess towards the rear. It dates back ...
Torrylin Cairn is the remains of a Neolithic chambered tomb. The cairn has been interfered with by stone robbing and later du ...
Knockmany passage tomb, or Anya"s Cove, is an ancient burial monument on the summit of Knockmany Hill, near the village ...
Mine Howe is a prehistoric subterranean man-made chamber dug 20 feet deep inside a large mound. The origin of the howe (from ...