The Long Cairn of Huilu, Lappi, Satakunta, Finland - Cairns on Waymarking.com

The Long Cairn of Huilu is a 24 meters long and 8 meters wide wall-like burial cairn surrounded by a stone wall.

The first archaeological investigations at Sammallahdenmäki were carried out by Volter Högman in 1891. Högman excavated four of the cairns: the Kirkonlaattia, the Huilun pitkä raunio, and two smaller graves. No artefacts were discovered, but the Kirkonlaattia produced a quantity of charcoal as well as a 3.5 metre long wall made of stone flags, thought to be an incomplete cist or the remains of one. The Huilun pitkä raunio was found to be a grave built in several phases, as shown by the concentric circles patterns discovered within the structure. The two other cairns were found to contain burnt bone.

A typical feature of the Sammallahdenmäki cairns are the stone cists, boxlike structures formed by stone flags standing on edge and forming end and side walls or only one or the other. The cist may have originally contained a body in a wooden coffin, or the dead person may have been wrapped in animal skins. On the other hand, the cist may also have served as a receptacle for the ashes of a cremation burial. Remains of cists are still visible in some of the unexcavated cairns as well as in one cairn reconstructed after Högman’s investigations.

Cairn Location: Forest hilltop Cairn Purpose: Grave Memorial Type if different from above list: N 61° 06.906 E 021° 46.615 Types of rock: Kaiken kokoisia kiviä, pääasiassa eri harmaan sävyisiä Cairn Condition:

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