Note

Date 2020

Event ID 1126952

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1126952

Quanterness

This burial site in Orkney Islands was a focus for funerary practices in the Neolithic period, between 3600 BC and 2451 BC.

Prehistoric Grave Goods project site ID: 60099

CANMORE ID: 2552

Total no. graves with grave goods: 1

Total no. people with grave goods: 2

Total no. grave goods: 20

Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74131

Grave type: Chamber

Burial type(s): Inhumation, Cremation

Grave good: Pot; Materials used: Pottery; Current museum location: Unknown

Grave good: Blade; Materials used: Chert / FlInt [Flint]; Current museum location: Unknown

Grave good: Bead(s); Materials used: Lead; Current museum location: Unknown

Grave good: Pin (Unknown/Unspecified); Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: Unknown

Grave good: Awl; Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: Unknown

Grave good: Bead(s); Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: Unknown

Grave good: Macehead; Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: Unknown

Grave good: Pin (Unknown/Unspecified); Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: Unknown

Grave good: Assemblage; Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: Unknown

Grave good: Animal Joint/Part (Unknown/Unspecified); Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: Unknown

Grave good: Knife; Materials used: Chert / Flint [Flint]; 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/