Naomi Mitchison wrote Early in Orcadia after a friend took her to another of Orkney's
chambered tombs, Isbister, which has no passage entry, because "she knew it would waken something in me" (8).
Ness of Brodgar lies near the Heart Of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site, comprising Skara Brae, the Maeshowe
chambered tomb, the Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar.
Tomb of the Eagles: Farmer Ronnie Simison discovered this neolithic,
chambered tomb on his land in 1958.
Giants Grave is a Neolithic
chambered tomb of the Severn Cotswold type and testimony to the dramatic change of lifestyle between the earlier hunter gatherers, and Gower's first farmers.
Permanent structures such the
chambered tomb - also known as dolmen or cromlech - were built by the first farmers in Wales during the Neolithic period from 4400 to 2300BC.
Researchers from the Welsh Rock Art Organisation have this week begun their excavation of Anglesey's least known Neolithic
chambered tombs - Perthi Duon.
Next day I turned back the clock a few millennia to find out about Orkney's Neolithic history, which includes the great henges of Brodgar and Stenness and the magnificent
chambered tombs of Maeshowe.
Cummings (Archaeology, University of Central Lancashire) provides an introduction to the
chambered tombs of west Wales, northern Britain's west coast, coastal south and western Scotland, the Isle of Man, and the east coast of Ireland.
They include not only
chambered tombs but also standing stones which can be single or grouped in rows and circles.
This documentary shows how two archaeological teams, one from Reading, the other from Princeton University, looked at a number of Stone Age sites, which included
chambered tombs, cairns and stone circles in the British Isles.
Since the 1960s, Orkney, with its profusion of well preserved settlements and remarkably conserved
chambered tombs, has been regarded as one of the richest sources for the understanding of Neolithic Britain.
As well as natural beauty, the peninsula features Neolithic
chambered tombs, Bronze Age ritual sites, Iron Age Hill Forts and a 16th Century salt house.