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Re: Taversoe Tuick by DrewParsons on Saturday, 16 October 2010

The upper chamber contained the bones of atleast 3 individuals, including one in a crouching position, set on stone shelves. There were also three heaps of cremated bones in the passage which had subsequently been blocked. The lower chamber also had the cremated bones of atleast one adult and one child. The lower chamber also contained large amounts of pottery sherds and some flint and stone tools but no animal bones which typify some other Orkney burial cairns. The passage into this lower chamber had also been blocked off. The mini chamber set a few metres behind the main cairn had only three well preserved pottery vessels in it and no evidence of funerary remains so its use is uncertain, maybe ceremonial? The site is just under a kilometre walk from the pier at Brinian.

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