The Tomb of the Eagles, or Isbister Chambered Cairn, is a Neolithic chambered tomb located on a cliff edge at Isbister on South Ronaldsay in Orkney, Scotland. The site was discovered by Ronald Simison, a farmer, when digging flagstones in 1958; he conducted a limited excavation and removed some bones and skulls at that time but filled in the site with dirt. A more extensive excavation was started in 1976, and "an enormous amount of material was removed", according to a report published in 2002.[1]
Alerted by Simison, archaeologist John Hedges mounted a full study, prepared a technical report and wrote a popular book[2] that cemented the tomb's name.[3] The Archaeological Journal review of the Hedges book (Tomb of the eagles a window on Stone Age tribal Britain) provided a less than stellar rating: "reasonably well done", "but how very much better it might have been".[4]
- ^ "AN EVALUATION OF THE HUMAN SKELETAL REMAINS AND ARTIFACTS FOUND IN THE TOMB OF THE EAGLES ON THE ORKNEY ISLANDS". Creation Research Society. 1 September 2002. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
- ^ Hedges, John (1990). Tomb of the Eagles: Death and Life in a Stone Age Tribe. New Amsterdam Books. ISBN 0-941533-05-0.
- ^ Pitts, Mike (2006). "Flight of the eagles". British Archaeology (86: 6).
- ^ Book Reviews Isbister: A Chambered Tomb in Orkney By John W. Hedges