Archaeologist Dr Kenny Brophy and researcher Andrew Watson have received a British Academy Leverhulme small grant to undertake research into the new trend, which has seen modern versions of prehistoric burial mounds called barrows being built to contain the cremation ashes of the deceased.
There are now more than ten of these buildings in operation or in the planning process across the UK, each with design elements taken from megalithic burial mounds from the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods.