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Date 2020

Event ID 1127098

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1127098

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This burial site in Western Isles was a focus for funerary practices in the Neolithic/Bronze Age period, between 4000 BC and 2201 BC.

Prehistoric Grave Goods project site ID: 60104

CANMORE ID: 10033

Total no. graves with grave goods: 1

Total no. people with grave goods: 1

Total no. grave goods: 3

Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 60035

Grave type: Pit

Burial type(s): Cremation

Grave good: Pot

Materials used: Pottery

Current museum location: Unknown

Grave good: Hammerstone

Materials used: Stone (Uncertain/Unspecified)

Current museum location: Unknown

Grave good: Scraper

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/

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