Note
Date 2020
Event ID 1126391
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1126391
Lyking
This burial site in Orkney Islands was a focus for funerary practices in the Bronze Age period, between 2200 BC and 1501 BC.
Prehistoric Grave Goods project site ID: 60178
CANMORE ID: 1617
Total no. graves with grave goods: 1
Total no. people with grave goods: 1
Total no. grave goods: 2
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 60068
Grave type: Cist
Burial type(s): Inhumation
Grave good: Vessel (Unknown/Unspecified)
Materials used: Steatite
Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Museum accession no.: X.EK 44
Grave good: Food Residue
Materials used: Organic (Uncertain/Unspecified)
Current museum location: Unknown
Further details, the full project database and downloads of project publications can be found here: https://doi.org/10.5284/1052206
An accessible visualisation of the database can be found here: http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/grave-goods/map/