Neolithic ORCA Tombs of the Isles

Tombs of the Isles – post-excavation photographs of Rousay’s Taversoe Tuick

Archive photographs added to the Tombs of the Isles entry for the Taversoe Tuick, Rousay.
1937: Inner end of upper chamber entrance passage. (📷 David Wilson/Orkney SMR)
1937: Inner end of upper chamber entrance passage. (📷 David Wilson/Orkney SMR)

We’ve reached the end of our scanned archive, but what better site to conclude with than the two-storeyed Taversoe Tuick in Rousay.

The photographs, taken around 1937, show the site after re-excavation by William Grant and James Callander and were taken by the Edinburgh surveyor and draughtsman David Wilson.


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