Note

Date 2020

Event ID 1127013

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1127013

Mine Howe

This burial site in Orkney Islands was a focus for funerary practices in the Iron Age period, between 100 BC and AD 100.

Prehistoric Grave Goods project site ID: 72898

CANMORE ID: 2998

Total no. graves with grave goods: 1

Total no. people with grave goods: 1

Total no. grave goods: 3

Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 73879

Grave type: Grave

Burial type(s): Inhumation

Grave good: Ring (Hand/Toe/Ear); Materials used: Bronze/Cu Alloy [Copper Alloy]; Current museum location: Unknown

Grave good: Ring (Hand/Toe/Ear); Materials used: Bronze/Cu Alloy [Copper Alloy]; Current museum location: Unknown

Grave good: Unknown Object; Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Antler]; 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/