Note

Date 2020

Event ID 1127057

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1127057

Prehistoric Grave Goods Project

Egmondshowe

This burial site in Orkney Islands was a focus for funerary practices in the Bronze Age period, between 2450 BC and 801 BC.

Prehistoric Grave Goods project site ID: 60058

CANMORE ID: 3409

Total no. graves with grave goods: 1

Total no. people with grave goods: 2

Total no. grave goods: 2

Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 60027

Grave type: Cist

Burial type(s): Inhumation, Inhumation

Grave good: Shell

Materials used: Coral/Shell [Shell]

Current museum location: Unknown

Grave good: Pot

Materials used: Pottery

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/