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Not forgetting Cuween hill chambered tomb! http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/206

AKA The Fairy Knowe... AKA "Tomb of the Beagles"..!

"Aside from the human bones, perhaps the most interesting discovery was that of 24 dog skulls. This led to the suggestion that the tomb’s users may have had totem animals.

However, over the years the relevance of these dog skulls has been queried, with suggestions that they may post-date the period the cairn was in use. But recent radiocarbon dating of a fragment of bone by the National Museums of Scotland has confirmed the dog skulls are contemporary." (http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/tombs/cuween/index.html)

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For Orkney add seven skellywegs from the destroyed short horned cairn (ND49NE 3) in Burray