Category Archives: Chambered Tomb

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Virtual tour of Maeshowe goes online

Picture: Sigurd Towrie
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Sixth chamber in Banks chambered tomb?

The entrance to Bank Chambered Tomb (Craig Taylor)
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Opening a window on life and death at the ‘Tomb of the Otters’

One of the skulls recovered from the west cell of the Banks Tomb. (Picture: ORCA)
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Tomb of the Eagles remains paint a darker picture of Neolithic Orkney

The skull of a child, aged between five and eight years old, showing marked congenital deformity. (Dave Lawrence)
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Neolithic artwork discovered at South Ronaldsay tomb?

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Multiple burials recovered from chambered cairn

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Archaeologists battle the elements in rescue excavation

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Neolithic chambered tomb unearthed in South Ronaldsay car park

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Eyebrows link Westray figurine with burial chamber

The "Eyebrow Motif" carvings from the Holm of Papay South (Historic Scotland)
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Plough uncovers suspected chambered tomb outside Kirkwall

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South Walls mound is a chambered cairn

The outer revetment wall. (ORCA)
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Salt Knowe – Orkney’s Silbury Hill?

Salt Knowe, by the shore of the Stenness Loch. (Sigurd Towrie)
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Recent floods highlight theory on Maeshowe’s ditch

Picture: Historic Scotland
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Acoustic project returns to recreate the sounds of Orkney’s sites

Dr Aaron Watson at work in Maeshowe's entrance passage.
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Eagle deposits post-date tomb construction by 1,000 years

The remains of the sea eagles found in the Isbister
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Damage limitation investigations begin at two of Orkney’s top archaeological sites

Skara Brae, Sandwick, Orkney (Picture Sigurd Towrie)
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Quanterness dig reveals suspected chambered cairn

Suspected chambered cairn in St Ola, Orkney
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Lost Rowiegar bones recovered

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Death, burial and metalworking at Westray’s Knowe o’ Skea

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Tourists declared “no threat” to Maeshowe

Picture: Sigurd Towrie