Where can I get a map of a cairn?

[maggot]

I want to know what the inside of an actual burial mound looks like. Is there a map somewhere out there? Searching with google has gotten me nowhere. Thanks.

 

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

Cairn's are usually pretty small, so I'm not sure if a map is appropriate... maybe getting to the real cairn
can be the challenge.

Some of these pic's aint bad...


http://www.aburton.freeserve.co.uk/scotland/clava/preview.html

This one is interesting : Some inside pics, but mostly outside...

http://www.stonepages.com/


Best O' Luck 2 ya

 

[Griswold]

I would try your local library. I made extensive use of the local library for some research on castles and manor houses, and I seem to remember some stuff on cairns there as well.

 

[mirzabah]

I want to know what the inside of an actual burial mound looks like. Is there a map somewhere out there? Searching with google has gotten me nowhere. Thanks.

A cairn is basically a smallish pile of rocks, often heaped directly on top the corpse. As someone else said, a map is probably not necessary.

However, perhaps you mean something a bit larger like a barrow. These sometimes have multiple chambers. I couldn't turn up any maps for you you, but I'm sure they're out there. Alternatively it wouldn't be too hard to draw one up yourself. Just remember that building these things took a lot of effort on the part of their builders, so your D&D standard of 60'x30' chambers would not be very authentic.

 

[hong]

Re: Re: Where can I get a map of a cairn?

A cairn is basically a smallish pile of rocks.

Yeah. Cairns? Smallish piles of rocks. Don't know what the fuss is about.

Of course, only us Austrians will get this joke.

Speaking of maps of Cairns:

http://www.tnq.org.au/crcb/map.htm

 

[Strider The Ranger]

If you're looking for burial mounds/cairns/barrows, you might want to go to your library and check out some books on Vikings..I distinctly recall picking up a book about Vikings for a project and seeing a sketch of what their burial mound looks like on the inside.

 

[kengar]

Maes Howe is a ancient mound up in the Orkney islands off the North coast of Scotland. It was built before the vikings, but they vandalised it about 1000 yrs ago or so, I believe. The link has a map with some measurements. My wife & I were there last summer and went inside, pretty neat stuff.

 

[hong]

More Cairns:

The Stone Pages