Sky burial (Tibetan: བྱ་གཏོར་, Wylie: bya gtor, lit. "bird-scattered") is a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose...
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Division) Boulder Burial, Gort na Lobhar (Gortnalour) Burial Ground, Baile Iarthach (Ballyieragh), Cill Leire Forabhain (Comillane), also Children's Burial Ground...
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Ireland. The Bronze Age site includes a multiple stone circle and some boulder burials. The Uragh Stone Circle is a small Bronze Age axial stone circle. It...
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field contains a large and near contemporary boulder-burial stone, known as the "Garranes Boulder burial", which is supported by three smaller stones...
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Cork, Ireland. The circle is thought to date from the Bronze Age. A boulder burial is sited nearby (grid ref: 308 368). The stone circle comprised 13 stones...
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natural boulders or plants. Found in Cobourg, Ontario, the Cobourg Union Cemetery is located on 20 acres of land, currently containing 3,800 burial lots...
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contains a calluragh, hut sites, cross slab, enclosure, souterrain, cross, boulder burial and standing stones. "National Monuments in State Care: Ownership &...
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located 2.4 km east of Rosscarbery. It dates to the Bronze Age and a boulder-burial is located nearby. Castle Salem is also near the village, and was the...
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the west. Another stone circle lies 175 m (574 ft) to the northeast. Boulder burials of this type are believed to date from the middle Bronze Age, i.e....
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commendation at the Irish Tourism Industry Awards in 2015. Boulder Burial, Ballycomane Burial Ground, Brahalish, Clashadoo, Coolcoulaghta, Dunbeacon, Kilvenogue...
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