Note
Date 2020
Event ID 1127006
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1127006
Point of Cott
This burial site in Orkney Islands was a focus for funerary practices in the Neolithic/Bronze Age period, between 4000 BC and 801 BC.
Prehistoric Grave Goods project site ID: 60083
CANMORE ID: 2756
Total no. graves with grave goods: 4
Total no. people with grave goods: 16
Total no. grave goods: 9
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74049
Grave type: Chamber
Burial type(s): Inhumation, Inhumation, Inhumation, Inhumation
Grave good: Animal Bone (Other); Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: Unknown
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74050
Grave type: Chamber
Burial type(s): Inhumation, Inhumation
Grave good: Pot; Materials used: Pottery; Current museum location: Unknown
Grave good: Pot; Materials used: Pottery; Current museum location: Unknown
Grave good: Pot; Materials used: Pottery; Current museum location: Unknown
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74051
Grave type: Chamber
Burial type(s): Inhumation, Inhumation, Inhumation, Inhumation, Inhumation, Inhumation, Inhumation, Inhumation
Grave good: Animal Joint/Part; Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: Unknown
Grave good: Animal Burial (Specified type); Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: Unknown
Grave good: Animal Bone (Other); Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: Unknown
Grave good: Necklace; Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Tooth]; Current museum location: Unknown
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74052
Grave type: Chamber
Burial type(s): Inhumation, Inhumation
Grave good: Animal Burial (Specified type)
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/
