Note
Date 2020
Event ID 1126448
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1126448
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This burial site in Orkney Islands was a focus for funerary practices in the Neolithic period, between 4000 BC and 3301 BC.
Prehistoric Grave Goods project site ID: 60071
CANMORE ID: 1740
Total no. graves with grave goods: 6
Total no. people with grave goods: 8
Total no. grave goods: 19
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74013
Grave type: Chamber
Burial type(s): Inhumation
Grave good: Pot
Materials used: Pottery
Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Grave good: Animal Bone (Other)
Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]
Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Grave good: Pot
Materials used: Pottery
Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74014
Grave type: Chamber
Burial type(s): Inhumation
Grave good: Flake
Materials used: Chert / Flint [Flint]
Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Grave good: Flake
Materials used: Chert / Flint [Flint]
Current museum location: Unknown
Grave good: Pot
Materials used: Pottery
Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Grave good: Scraper
Materials used: Chert / Flint [Flint]
Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74068
Grave type: Chamber
Burial type(s): Inhumation, Inhumation
Grave good: Pot
Materials used: Pottery
Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Grave good: Arrowhead
Materials used: Chert / Flint [Flint]
Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Grave good: Animal Bone (Other)
Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]
Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Grave good: Pounder/Rubber (Unknown/Unspecified)
Materials used: Stone (Uncertain/Unspecified)
Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Grave good: Flake
Materials used: Chert / Flint [Flint]
Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74069
Grave type: Chamber
Burial type(s): Inhumation, Inhumation
Grave good: Pounder/Rubber (Unknown/Unspecified)
Materials used: Stone (Uncertain/Unspecified)
Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Museum accession no.: X.EO 184
Grave good: Flake
Materials used: Chert / Flint [Flint]
Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74070
Grave type: Chamber
Burial type(s): Inhumation
Grave good: Pot
Materials used: Pottery
Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Grave good: Pot
Materials used: Pottery
Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74071
Grave type: Chamber
Burial type(s): Inhumation
Grave good: Arrowhead
Materials used: Chert / Flint [Flint]
Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Grave good: Arrowhead
Materials used: Chert / Flint [Flint]
Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Grave good: Pot
Materials used: Pottery
Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
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/
