Note

Date 2020

Event ID 1126993

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1126993

Prehistoric Grave Goods Project

Curquoy

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: 60084

CANMORE ID: 2772

Total no. graves with grave goods: 1

Total no. people with grave goods: 1

Total no. grave goods: 1

Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74048

Grave type: Chamber

Burial type(s): Inhumation

Grave good: Pebble

Materials used: Quartz/Quartzite, Greenstone

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/