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Date 2020

Event ID 1126955

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1126955

Knowe of Yarso

This burial site in Orkney Islands was a focus for funerary practices in the Neolithic period, between 3650 BC and 2540 BC.

Prehistoric Grave Goods project site ID: 60076

CANMORE ID: 2623

Total no. graves with grave goods: 3

Total no. people with grave goods: 5

Total no. grave goods: 20

Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74016

Grave type: Chamber

Burial type(s): Inhumation, Inhumation

Grave good: Core; Materials used: Chert / Flint [Flint]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland

Grave good: Knife; Materials used: Chert / Flint [Flint]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland

Grave good: Animal Joint/Part; Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland

Grave good: Animal Joint/Part; Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Antler], Coral/Shell [Shell]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland

Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74017

Grave type: Chamber

Burial type(s): Inhumation

Grave good: Scraper; Materials used: Chert / Flint [Flint]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland

Grave good: Scraper; Materials used: Chert / Flint [Flint]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland

Grave good: Scraper; Materials used: Chert / Flint [Flint]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland

Grave good: Scraper; Materials used: Chert / Flint [Flint]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland

Grave good: Scraper; Materials used: Chert / Flint [Flint]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland

Grave good: Scraper; Materials used: Chert / Flint [Flint]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland

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

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

Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74018

Grave type: Chamber

Burial type(s): Inhumation, Inhumation

Grave good: Point (Unknown/Unspecified); Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]

Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland

Grave good: Point (Unknown/Unspecified); Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]

Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland

Grave good: Point (Unknown/Unspecified); Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]

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: Animal Bone (Other); 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: National Museum of Scotland

Grave good: Shell; Materials used: Coral/Shell [Shell]; Current museum location: Unknown

Grave good: Animal Bone (Other); Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; 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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