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Date 2020

Event ID 1127091

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1127091

Hornish Point

This burial site in Western Isles was a focus for funerary practices in the Iron Age period, between 200 BC and AD 20.

Prehistoric Grave Goods project site ID: 60203

CANMORE ID: 9913

Total no. graves with grave goods: 1

Total no. people with grave goods: 1

Total no. grave goods: 4

Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 60091

Grave type: Pit

Burial type(s): Inhumation

Grave good: Animal Burial (Specified type)

Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]

Current museum location: Unknown

Grave good: Animal Burial (Specified type)

Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]

Current museum location: Unknown

Grave good: Animal Burial (Specified type)

Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]

Current museum location: Unknown

Grave good: Animal Burial (Specified type)

Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]

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/

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