A double-decker hybrid ?

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wideford Apr 30, 2012 22:45:49

The excavated chambers were dug into the bedrock, but from the latest work there is evidence for a lintel below the entrance passage leading to another (there is a space). Does anyone remember siuch a thing elsewhere ??

Moth Apr 30, 2012 23:31:06

Replying to wideford

Not really, tho there's sort of double decker-stuff on Rousay like http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/398/taversoe_tuick.html & in the South of France http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/10498/dolmen_1_de_costeclaude.html

Not sure they're really similar to the one you're talking about tho....

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Moth

Megalithics May 1, 2012 21:39:33

Replying to wideford

Huntersquoy (ORK 23) on Eday, and Taversoe Tuick (ORK 49) on Rousay, are both of double-decker construction. Both are in round cairns, both have Bookan-style chambers and both have the entrance passages to the two levels arranged at 180 degrees to each other.

Both levels at Taversoe certainly seem to have been built at the same time, so it's not a multi-phase monument. There was no communication between the two levels at either Huntersquoy or Taversoe, the two chambers were completely separate.

We've just put up a full piece on Taversoe Tuick which includes a high resolution full spherical VR tour of the entire interior if you want to look around in there:-

http://www.megalithics.com/scotland/taversoe/tuickmain.htm