Note

Date 2020

Event ID 1127028

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1127028

Quoyness

This burial site in Orkney Islands was a focus for funerary practices in the Neolithic period, between 2900 BC and 2451 BC.

Prehistoric Grave Goods project site ID: 60090

CANMORE ID: 3395

Total no. graves with grave goods: 5

Total no. people with grave goods: 5

Total no. grave goods: 10

Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74054

Grave type: Chamber

Burial type(s): Inhumation

Grave good: Disc; Materials used: Slate; Current museum location: Unknown

Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74055

Grave type: Chamber

Burial type(s): Inhumation

Grave good: Animal Bone (Other); Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: Unknown

Grave good: Pot; Materials used: Pottery; Current museum location: Unknown

Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74056

Grave type: Passage

Burial type(s): Inhumation

Grave good: Pot; Materials used: Pottery; Current museum location: Unknown

Grave good: Animal Bone (Other); Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]; Current museum location: Unknown

Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74058

Grave type: Cist

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: 74059

Grave type: Chamber

Burial type(s): Inhumation

Grave good: Pot; Materials used: Pottery; Current museum location: Unknown

Grave good: Knife; 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/