Orkney Smr Note

Event ID 620490

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

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'I have cleared out a brough in Harray, which presented

nothing very peculiar. Within the ruins, however, were found many

worked stones, stone lamps, fragments of coarse pottery,

perforated stones, and some of those curious circular discs,

hitherto only found at Skaill, and described as plates by Mr

William Watt; a modern-looking bronze implement, the handle of

some weapon I imagine, which I saw dug up myself. A small

fragment of iron was also found, but at some distance from the

bronze.... There were kists, or rather underground cupboards,

partly beneath the floor of the main circular chamber'. [R1]

Presented by J Farrer in 1867. Collection from the Broch of

Harray. GF 1-27, (1-6) Pounders of sandstone, abraded on edges by

use, from three and a half to five inches long; (7) fragment of

hematite; (8-11) flat, circular discs viz 8-9, of slate, ten and

three quarters, and five and three quarters inches in diameter; 10,

of stone, four and a quarter inches in diameter; 11, of stone,

perforated, three inches in diameter; (12) slab of stone, eight x

five and three quarters x one and five-eights inches, with

longitudinal indentations cut into it; (13-16) whorls of bone and

stone, from one and a half to two inches in diameter; (17) stud of

bone, perforated; (18-22) pointed implements of bone from one and

three quarters to three and a quarter inches long; (23) boar's

tusk; (24-25) fragments of deer-horn; (26) portion of bone of

whale with two perforations; (27) bronze tip of spear-shaft, three

and a half inches long. [R2]

The bronze spear butt is likened to the one (less ornate)

found at Traprain Law. [R3]

Information from Orkney SMR [n.d.]