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Date 2020

Event ID 1126959

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1126959

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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: 60080

CANMORE ID: 2709

Total no. graves with grave goods: 1

Total no. people with grave goods: 1

Total no. grave goods: 4

Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74112

Grave type: Pit

Burial type(s): Cremation

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: Scraper; Materials used: Chert / Flint [Flint]; Current museum location: Unknown

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

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