Note
Date 2020
Event ID 1127018
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1127018
Holm of Papa Westray North
This burial site in Orkney Islands was a focus for funerary practices in the Neolithic period, between 3300 BC and 2551 BC.
Prehistoric Grave Goods project site ID: 60095
CANMORE ID: 3243
Total no. graves with grave goods: 5
Total no. people with grave goods: 13
Total no. grave goods: 22
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74036
Grave type: Chamber
Burial type(s): Inhumation
Grave good: Animal Joint/Part; Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Antler]; Current museum location: Unknown
Grave good: Animal Joint/Part; Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: Unknown
Grave good: Animal Joint/Part; Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Grave good: Animal Bone (Other); Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74037
Grave type: Chamber
Burial type(s): Inhumation
Grave good: Animal Bone (Other); Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Grave good: Animal Bone (Other); Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Grave good: Animal Bone (Other); Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Grave good: Animal Bone (Other); Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Grave good: Animal Bone (Other); Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74038
Grave type: Chamber
Burial type(s): Inhumation, Inhumation, Inhumation
Grave good: Pot; Materials used: Pottery; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Grave good: Assemblage; Materials used: Pottery; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Grave good: Bead(s); Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Grave good: Unknown Object; Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74039
Grave type: Chamber
Burial type(s): Inhumation, Inhumation, Inhumation, Inhumation
Grave good: Animal Joint/Part; Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Grave good: Animal Joint/Part; Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Grave good: Assemblage; Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone], Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Antler]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Grave good: Point (Unknown/Unspecified); Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Grave good: Point (Unknown/Unspecified); Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74040
Grave type: Chamber
Burial type(s): Inhumation, Inhumation, Inhumation, Inhumation
Grave good: Animal Joint/Part; Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Grave good: Animal Bone (Other); 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: National Museum of Scotland
Grave good: Animal Joint/Part; Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Antler]; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
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/
