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Date 2020

Event ID 1126939

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1126939

Trumland

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: 60164

CANMORE ID: 2624

Total no. graves with grave goods: 2

Total no. people with grave goods: 2

Total no. grave goods: 2

Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 60057

Grave type: Cist

Burial type(s): Cremation

Grave good: Vessel (Unknown/Unspecified)

Materials used: Steatite

Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland

Museum accession no.: X.EQ 535

Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 72374

Grave type: Cist

Burial type(s): Cremation

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/

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