Taversöe Tuick
| Exterior view The tomb in 2014 | |
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| Alternative name | Taversoe Tuick |
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| Location | Scotland |
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| Type | Chambered cairn |
| History | |
| Founded | c. 3250 BC[1] |
| Periods | Neolithic |
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Taversöe Tuick (or Taversoe Tuick) is a Neolithic burial cairn on Rousay, Orkney, Scotland, thought to date from between 4000 and 2500 BCE.[1] The monument includes a rare example of a double-tiered chamber,[1] an upper chamber approached via a passageway and a lower subterranean chamber, originally separate, which can now be reached via a modern ladder from the upper chamber.[2][3] It is unknown why the chambers were stacked in this way.[3] The monument includes a third miniature chamber slightly downhill of the lower chamber, and linked to it by a small channel which has sometimes been called a 'drain' although that is not believed to be its true purpose.[4]
In 1898, excavations uncovered part of the upper chamber, and access was gained to the intact lower chamber.[4] The site was fully excavated in 1937, at which time the upper chamber was covered with a domed roof.[4] Finds included several skeletons, cremated bone, bowls, a mace-head, a flint arrowhead and scrapers, and shale disc beads.[4]
The site is a scheduled monument in the care of Historic Environment Scotland,[2] and the monument and chambers are open to the public.[3]
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- Buildings and structures completed in the 4th millennium BC
- 3rd-millennium BC architecture in Scotland
- Archaeological sites in Orkney
- Buildings and structures in Orkney
- Historic Environment Scotland properties in Orkney
- Prehistoric Orkney
- Scheduled monuments in Orkney
- Neolithic Scotland
- Rousay
- Chambered cairns in Scotland
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