Grooved ware
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Grooved ware is the name given to a pottery style of the British Neolithic. Its manufacturers are sometimes known as the Grooved ware people. Unlike the later Beaker ware, Grooved culture was not an i
Grooved Ware sherd from Durrington Walls
Grooved ware sherd from Cornwall
A sherd from the rim of a large grooved Cornish urn
Maeshowe
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Maeshowe is a Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland Orkney, Scotland. It was probably built around 2800 BC. In the archaeology of Scotland, it gives its name to the Maeshowe
Grooved ware
…co-exist with their Grooved ware counterparts. Some hybrid chambered cairns have emerged in this region, containing architectural features of both the Maeshowe subclass and the Orkney-Cromarty stalled subclasses of cairn. Bronze Age Britain…
The chambered cairn in 2006
Maeshowe Entrance
Maeshowe soon after opening in 1861
Maes Howe interior in 2012