Note
Date 2020
Event ID 1127147
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1127147
Lopness
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: 60180
CANMORE ID: 306622
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: 60070
Grave type: Cist
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: Assemblage
Materials used: Coral/Shell [Shell]
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: Assemblage (Mixed)
Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone], Organic (Uncertain/Unspecified), Chert / Flint [Flint], Charred Plant Remains, 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/
