Taversöe Tuick
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Taversöe Tuick
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Taversöe Tuick is a Neolithic burial cairn on Rousay, Orkney, Scotland, thought to date from between 4000 and 2500 BCE. The monument includes a rare example of a double-tiered chamber, 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. It is unknown why the chambers were stacked in this way. The monument includes a third miniature chamber slightly downhill of the lower chamber, a
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Neolithic cairn in Orkney, Scotland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavers%C3%B6e_Tuick
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2022-05-30T19:28:30Z
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