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Note
Date 2020
Event ID 1127009
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1127009
Knowe of Skea
This burial site in Orkney Islands was a focus for funerary practices in the Iron Age period, between 800 BC and AD 200.
Prehistoric Grave Goods project site ID: 60034
CANMORE ID: 2838
Total no. graves with grave goods: 6
Total no. people with grave goods: 8
Total no. grave goods: 9
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 73864
Grave type: Unknown
Burial type(s): 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: 73866
Grave type: Unknown
Burial type(s): 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: 73867
Grave type: Unknown
Burial type(s): Inhumation
Grave good: Animal Burial (Specified type); 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
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 73868
Grave type: Unknown
Burial type(s): Inhumation
Grave good: Animal Joint/Part (Unknown/Unspecified); Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: Unknown
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 73869
Grave type: Unknown
Burial type(s): Inhumation, Inhumation
Grave good: Animal Joint/Part (Other specified part); Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: Unknown
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 73871
Grave type: Unknown
Burial type(s): Inhumation
Grave good: Animal Burial (Specified type); 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 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/
