- Boulder-grave: a burial place of large stones, consisting of several
low ones embedded in the ground and supporting a heavy capstone.
- Cairn: an artificial mound of smallish stones covering one or more
burials.
- Chambered tomb: at first a burial place, later a shrine, of the
Neolithic period. It consisted of a stone built passage giving access
to one or several chambers.
- Cist: a grave lined with thin slabs of stone and covered by a capstone.
Cists were sometimes inserted inside existing stone circles.
- Kerbstones: heavy stones, side by side, around the base of a barrow,
cairn or chambered tomb.
- Passage-tomb: a round chambered tomb with a passage leading to
a burial chamber, common in Ireland and Scotland.
- Ring-cairn: a low round cairn without
a passage but with an open central space in which cremated bones
were often placed. Ring-cairns also occur inside recumbent stone
circles in north-east Scotland
and the Clava Cairns of Inverness-shire.
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