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Date 2020
Event ID 1127008
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1127008
Pierowall Quarry
This burial site in Orkney Islands was a focus for funerary practices in the Neolithic period, between 4000 BC and 2451 BC.
Prehistoric Grave Goods project site ID: 60108
CANMORE ID: 2789
Total no. graves with grave goods: 1
Total no. people with grave goods: 1
Total no. grave goods: 7
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74022
Grave type: Unknown
Burial type(s): Inhumation
Grave good: Worked Stone; Materials used: Stone (Uncertain/Unspecified); Current museum location: Unknown
Grave good: Worked Stone; Materials used: Stone (Uncertain/Unspecified); Current museum location: Unknown
Grave good: Worked Stone; Materials used: Stone (Uncertain/Unspecified); Current museum location: Unknown
Grave good: Assemblage; Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: Unknown
Grave good: Scraper; Materials used: Chert / Flint [Flint]; Current museum location: Unknown
Grave good: Scraper; Materials used: Chert / Flint [Flint]; Current museum location: Unknown
Grave good: Scraper; 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/
