Quoyness Chambered Cairn

Quoyness chambered cairn is a Neolithic burial monument located on the island of Sanday in Orkney [1]. Similar to Maeshowe in design, the tomb was probably built around 3000 BC [1]. The skeletal remains of several people were uncovered in the tomb during excavation in 1867 [1]. The monument was partially restored and reconstructed after a second excavation during the early 1950s [1]. Quoyness chambered cairn is located on the Elsness peninsula [1]. The cairn sits on a wide, oval-shaped stone platform and was built with a mix of stones, earth and waste material intermixed with horizontal slabs [1]. A stone kerb surrounds the platform on the south and the west ends [1]. The cairn was excavated by James Farrer and George Petrie in 1867 [1].