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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 656644
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/656644
NF71SE 3 unlocated.
Fragments of the blade of a double-edged Viking sword with bronze hilt, an iron spearhead, and a well-worn whetstone were dug up in the Island of Eriskay by the late Rev Macdonald. Shetelig states they were "from a man's grave" but gives no authority for this statement.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1906; A O Curle, M Olsen and H Shetelig 1954.
Local enquiries re the above finds proved negative.
Visited by OS (E G C) 18 May 1965.
