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Note
Date 1982
Event ID 1145892
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1145892
Westness/Swandro area HY 37 28 HY32NE 3
Sword, shield-boss and iron fragments ploughed up c. 1826, indicating at least one, probably two, male burials; suggestion of several graves in area. Although oldest report names find-spot as 'Sweindrow', which has been associated with mound of that name (HY32NE 19), current tradition (per Dr Sigrid Kaland, Historisk Museet, Bergen) asserts that the objects were ploughed up in a neighbouring field. Finds in NMAS (I L 195-6).
RCAHMS 1982
(Anderson 1874, 563-6; PSAS, 14, 1879-80, 57, Brogger 1929, 131-2; Greig 1940, 88-90 with fig. 51, p. 91; Curle, Olsen and Shetelig 1954, 70; OR 546)
