Orkney Smr Note

Date September 1979

Event ID 618814

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/618814

Comb - stated to be from a 'kjmkkenmmdding' in Sanday - illustrated. [R1]

Viking-period bone comb 'mainly of the type Rygh 447, but without the offsets at both ends of the type specimen'. Stated to be 'find from a kitchen-midden in Sanday'. [R2]

Kitchen-midden exposed in face of low cliff which rises from the beach immediately N of the house of Pool. Stated to be find-spot of Viking comb. [R3]

The comb is now on display in Tankerness House Museum, Kirkwall.

Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Sep 79

Drystone walling and large kitchen-midden depsoit of limpet shells, coarse pottery, animal bone, burnt stones, exposed in shore for about 60m. A bone borer, 3 bone pins, a perforated bone implement and 3 whorls picked up about 20 years ago by Mr Skea and retained by him.

OS visit Jul 70, Mr Skea, farmer, North Mire.