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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 647602
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/647602
NB45NW 8 420 557.
Two balls of cream coloured fat with clear yellow flecks and a suety smell were found during peat cutting by Mr Mackenzie. When removed, the first ball was found to be partly covered with thin skin and fibrous vegetable matter, identified as animal gut or bladders and straw, by NMAS laboratory, where both are being conserved and analysed.
M MacRae, G Ponting, M Ponting and D Caldwell 1983.
This object remains (unregistered) in the NMS. It comprises two spheres of bog butter wrapped in animal intestines, and has been radiocarbon-dated to 1020-1158 AD (UB-3737).
NMRS, MS/996/1.
