Note
Date 2020
Event ID 1126408
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1126408
Linga Fiold
This burial site in Orkney Islands was a focus for funerary practices in the Bronze Age period, between 2450 BC and 801 BC.
Prehistoric Grave Goods project site ID: 60022
CANMORE ID: 1609
Total no. graves with grave goods: 5
Total no. people with grave goods: 6
Total no. grave goods: 5
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 60006
Grave type: Cist
Burial type(s): Cremation
Grave good: Pot (Unknown/Unspecified)
Materials used: Pottery
Current museum location: Orkney Museum (Stromness)
Museum accession no.: A190
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 73838
Grave type: Cist
Burial type(s): Cremation
Grave good: Vessel (Unknown/Unspecified)
Materials used: Steatite
Current museum location: Unknown
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 73839
Grave type: Cist
Burial type(s): Cremation
Grave good: Pot (Unknown/Unspecified)
Materials used: Pottery
Current museum location: Unknown
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 73840
Grave type: Cist
Burial type(s): Cremation, Cremation
Grave good: Lid
Materials used: Stone (Uncertain/Unspecified)
Current museum location: Unknown
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 73841
Grave type: Cist
Burial type(s): Inhumation
Grave good: Pot (Unknown/Unspecified)
Materials used: Pottery
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/
