A couple of sketches of the cairns of Cairnholy in Dumfries and Galloway for #TombTuesday.

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New photographs added to Quoyness and Egmondshowe pages Work in Sanday recently gave me the chance to update my photo library - some of which have now been to the Quoyness chambered cairn and Egmondshowe pages.

Work in #Sanday recently gave me the chance to update my photo library - some of which have now been to the Quoyness chambered cairn and Egmondshowe pages.
#Orkney #Neolithic #archaeology #chamberedcairns #chamberedtomb

Similar but different – the two-storey Huntersquoy chambered cairn, Eday “Excavation disclosed, not an ‘Erd House’, as stated, but a neolithic burial cairn of very remarkable construction, since it contained two separate, but contemporary, chambers disposed in an unusual manner one above the other.” Charles Calder. Excavations of Three Neolithic Chambered Cairns in the Islands of Eday and the Calf of Eday, in Orkney. (1938)

A look at the Huntersquoy chambered cairn in Eday.
#orkney #archaeology #Neolithic #chamberedcairns #chamberedtombs

Tombs of the Isles - Rowiegar updated to include link to new human remains research paper - Archaeology Orkney We've updated the entry for Rousay’s Knowe of Rowiegar to include a link to new research suggesting human remains were placed in the Neolithic cairn at different stages of decomposition.

We've updated the entry for Rousay’s Knowe of Rowiegar to include a link to new research suggesting human remains were placed in the Neolithic cairn at different stages of decomposition.
archaeologyorkney.com/2025/01/17/r...
#archaeology #neolithic #chamberedtombs #chamberedcairns #rousay #orkney