Orkney Smr Note

Event ID 619075

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

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Viking-Age grave was found 1963 with a oair of oval

brooches, a Celtic brooch of extremely fine workmanship, bronze

mounts, forty beads, fragments of a bronze bowl and a bone comb.

The penannular brooch is of the highest quality: it is of silver,

inlaid with gold panels, decorated with zoomorphic designs in

filigree, and has studs of glass and amber.

[R1]

Grave containing female skeleton with two bronze

tortoise-brooches [ AD 800-850], silver Celtic brooch with gold

filigree cAD 750 Irish] and decorative bronze-gilt panel from

book cover or reliquary. Found by J Flett, Westness Farm, in

burying a cow. Grave (and cow) subsequently re-excavated by A S

Henshall.

[R2]

Information from Orkney SMR [n.d.]