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are two fine examples near Yarhouse. The largest 

 is 240 feet in length. The chamber is circular, 

 and roofed partly by corbelling and partly by 

 a large slab. In the cairn of Get we have a shorter 

 and wider example of the horned type. Another 



Fig. 4. Horned tumulus at Garrywhin, Caithness. 

 (After Montelius.) 



type is circular or elliptical. In a cairn of this 

 sort at Camster an iron knife was found. On the 

 Holm of Papa-Westra in the Orkneys there is an 

 elliptical cairn of this kind containing a long 

 rectangular chamber running along its major 

 axis with seven small circular niches opening off 

 it. The entrance passage lies on the minor axis 

 of the barrow. 



