The Time Team travels to Orkney, where local farmer Douglas Paterson went in search of a mysterious underground chamber, said to be lost on his land after its discovery some 50 years earlier.
Broadcast 27th December 2000
Time Team Web Page – http://www.channel4.com/history/timeteam/archive/2000minehowe.html
This is one of many glacial-looking hillocks lying East of the cemetery and 400m South East of the parish hall at Toab. A good few years before 1979 a school-teacher moved some stone on the summit and found an opening with steps leading down. The proprietor caused the opening to be re-sealed.
An underground chamber relating to the mound was rediscovered in 1999. An excavation was undertaken and the mound, though natural, contained a chamber and was surrounded by a ditch
Other Links
http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/minehowe/
Part of the online journal of the excavation at Minehowe by the Orkney Archaeological Trust describing the involvement of the Time Team
More details can also be found on the Canmore website
http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/pls/portal/newcanmore.details_gis?inumlink=2998
Publications
Card, Downes and Gibson, N, J and J (2000) ‘Minehowe, Orkney (St Andrews & Deerness parish), later-prehistoric acvtivity’,
Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 1, 2000, Fig 23, 65-6
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