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<< Our Photo Pages >> Quanterness - Chambered Cairn in Scotland in Orkney

Submitted by TimPrevett on Tuesday, 01 August 2006  Page Views: 11054

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Quanterness
Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Chambered Cairn
Nearest Town: Kirkwall
Map Ref: HY417129
Latitude: 58.999213N  Longitude: 3.016463W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
3

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Quanterness submitted by TimPrevett : The large green mound - all that is visible of Quanterness Chambered Cairn. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Chambered Cairn in Orkney

A large chambered cairn - but just a large grassy mound to visit. I cycled up through the farm, and began along the ridgeway track beneath Wideford Hill. Expecting to knock and ask permission, there was an open gate, and nothing to prohibit or prevent me from a look. Difficult to appreciate the site.
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Quanterness submitted by durhamnature : Plan of the cairn, from "Scotland in Pagan Times" via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

Quanterness
Quanterness submitted by TimPrevett : A green mound, with trees which limit its photogenic possibilities. This is all that can be seen at this Quanterness cairn. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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HY4112 : Sheep Dogs? Cow Dogs? Cattle Dogs? by Ian Balcombe
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HY4112 : Quanterness Farm Yard by Ian Balcombe
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HY4112 : Quanterness Farm by Ian Balcombe
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HY4112 : Quanterness Farm by Andy Farrington
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HY4112 : Chambered Cairn and Farm House by Ian Balcombe
by Ian Balcombe
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Revisiting Quanterness: new AMS dates and stable isotope data by Andy B on Thursday, 19 February 2015
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Revisiting Quanterness: new AMS dates and stable isotope data from an Orcadian chamber tomb by Schulting, R.J., Sheridan, A., Crozier, R., and Murphy, E. 2010.

A total of 20 new AMS radiocarbon determinations on human bone have been obtained for the Neolithic chamber tomb of Quanterness, Orkney. The results show poor agreement with the recorded stratigraphy, suggesting extensive mixing of the chamber deposits. A Bayesian model treating all of the determinations as deriving from a single phase of activity provides a start date in the range 3510–3220 cal bc (most probably falling after 3450 cal bc), with the main phase of burial activity ending in the range 2850–2790 cal bc (95.4% probability). This presents a tighter range than previously available, but nevertheless appears to confirm the longevity burial activity at the monument.

Osteologically, there is no convincing evidence for excarnation, and the representation of the small bones of the hands and feet, together with the absence of sub-aerial weathering, make it unlikely that the bulk of the human bone assemblage was brought in from elsewhere, as had previously been suggested. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope measurements average –20.5 ± 0.4‰ and 11.1 ± 0.6‰ respectively, indicating no appreciable consumption of marine protein despite the site’s location less than 1km from the coast. There are tentative but intriguing diachronic trends in both isotopes with δ13C values decreasing, and δ15N values increasing through time; this could suggest changing farming practices, though the details remain unclear.

The dating and the palaeodietary are discussed within the context of Middle/Late Neolithic Orkney, emphasising the former’s relevance to debates concerning the origin of Maes Howe-type passage tombs and the appearance of Grooved Ware. The radiocarbon dates support the view that Grooved Ware emerged as a novel pottery tradition in Orkney between c 3300/3200 and c 3100 BC.

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