Note
Date 2020
Event ID 1127031
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1127031
Cnip #1
This burial site in Western Isles was a focus for funerary practices in the Bronze Age period, between 2200 BC and 1501 BC.
Prehistoric Grave Goods project site ID: 60064
CANMORE ID: 4003
Total no. graves with grave goods: 4
Total no. people with grave goods: 6
Total no. grave goods: 8
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 60032
Grave type: Cist
Burial type(s): Cremation
Grave good: Pot; Materials used: Pottery; Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland; Museum accession no.: X.EQ 1109
Grave good: Lid; Materials used: Organic (Uncertain/Unspecified); Current museum location: Unknown
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 72332
Grave type: Cist
Burial type(s): Inhumation, Inhumation
Grave good: Pendant; Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Ivory], Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Tooth]; Current museum location: Unknown
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74512
Grave type: Mound
Burial type(s): Inhumation, Inhumation
Grave good: Awl; Materials used: Bronze/Cu Alloy [Bronze]; Current museum location: Unknown
Grave good: Bead(s); Materials used: Jet/Lignite/Shale/Coal [Jet], Sinew; Current museum location: Unknown
Grave good: Wrap; Materials used: Organic (Uncertain/Unspecified); Current museum location: Unknown
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74513
Grave type: Pit
Burial type(s): Inhumation
Grave good: Shell; Materials used: Coral/Shell [Shell]; Current museum location: Unknown
Grave good: Wrap; Materials used: Organic (Uncertain/Unspecified); 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/
