Note

Date 2020

Event ID 1127128

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1127128

Prehistoric Grave Goods Project

Mousland

This burial site in Orkney Islands was a focus for funerary practices in the Bronze Age period, between 2200 BC and 1501 BC.

Prehistoric Grave Goods project site ID: 60031

CANMORE ID: 89732

Total no. graves with grave goods: 1

Total no. people with grave goods: 1

Total no. grave goods: 2

Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 60015

Grave type: Cist

Burial type(s): Cremation

Grave good: Axe/Axehead

Materials used: Steatite

Current museum location: Orkney Museum (Kirkwall)

Grave good: Arrowhead (Unknown/Unspecified)

Materials used: Chert / Flint [Flint]

Current museum location: Orkney Museum (Kirkwall)

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/