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Date 2020
Event ID 1126446
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1126446
Ness of Brodgar
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: 60063
CANMORE ID: 1698
Total no. graves with grave goods: 2
Total no. people with grave goods: 2
Total no. grave goods: 4
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 60031
Grave type: Cist
Burial type(s): Cremation
Grave good: Vessel (Unknown/Unspecified)
Materials used: Steatite
Current museum location: Unknown
Grave good: Mortar/Pestle
Materials used: Stone (Uncertain/Unspecified)
Current museum location: Unknown
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 72328
Grave type: Cist
Burial type(s): Cremation
Grave good: Worked Stone
Materials used: Stone (Uncertain/Unspecified)
Current museum location: Unknown
Grave good: Pot
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/
