Taversöe Tuick Chambered Cairn

Taversöe Tuick Chambered Cairn
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(4500-2500 BCE) Taversoe Tuick is a Neolithic burial cairn on Rousay, Orkney featuring a rare double-tiered chamber system [1]. An upper chamber is entered via a passage, with a lower subterranean chamber now accessed by a modern ladder -- originally these were separate spaces [1].

TypeCairn
Period4500 - 3000 BC
CountryScotland
Coordinates59.1312° N, 3.0050° W

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