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Date 2020
Event ID 1126942
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1126942
Taversoe Tuick
This burial site in Orkney Islands was a focus for funerary practices in the Neolithic period, between 4000 BC and 3351 BC.
Prehistoric Grave Goods project site ID: 60077
CANMORE ID: 2634
Total no. graves with grave goods: 6
Total no. people with grave goods: 10
Total no. grave goods: 11
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74060
Grave type: Chamber
Burial type(s): Inhumation, Inhumation, 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
Grave good: Knife; Materials used: Chert / Flint [Flint]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland; Museum accession no.: X.EO 749
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74061
Grave type: Passage
Burial type(s): Cremation, Cremation, Cremation
Grave good: Macehead; Materials used: Granite; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland; Museum accession no.: X.EO 378
Grave good: Arrowhead; Materials used: Chert / Flint [Flint]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland; Museum accession no.: X.EO 748
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: 74062
Grave type: Cist
Burial type(s): Cremation
Grave good: Pot (Unknown/Unspecified); Materials used: Pottery; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74063
Grave type: Chamber
Burial type(s): Inhumation
Grave good: Pot; Materials used: Pottery; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74065
Grave type: Cist
Burial type(s): Cremation
Grave good: Pot (Unknown/Unspecified); Materials used: Pottery; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74066
Grave type: Cist
Burial type(s): Cremation
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/
