Lady Eliza D'Oyly Burroughs

Lady
Eliza D'Oyly Burroughs
Born9 May 1849
Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, England
Died1 February 1908 (aged 58)
London, England
Burial placeLondon, England
OccupationArchaeologist
SpouseFrederick Traill-Burroughs (m. 1870, d. 1905)

Lady Eliza D'Oyly Traill-Burroughs (née Geddes, 9 May 1849 – 1 February 1908) was a British archaeologist from Scotland. She described the discovery of the rare Taversöe Tuick chambered cairn on the island of Rousay, Orkney, Scotland in May 1898 in her journal, which was published and discussed in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1985.

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