Archaeology Notes

Event ID 646805

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY63NW 16 c. 611 371.

(HY 611 371) A portion of a narrow subterranean passage was accidentally discovered in the Braeswick district and finds recovered at the time, said to have been wrapped in a piece of seal or other skin and comprising a bronze tortoise Viking brooch, two beads of amber and one of blue glass were purchased for the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1914 (IL 343 - 6). Some rude stone vessels are said to have accompanied them.

The site has been covered over and no structure is now visible, but Grieg classifies this as a burial and Wainwright further states it was a woman's grave.

Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1915; S Grieg 1940; RCAHMS 1946, visited 1928; F T Wainwright 1962.

No further information.

Visited by OS (RL) 7 July 1970.