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Field Visit
Date June 1980
Event ID 774373
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/774373
NR26NW 4.01 c.218 671. In 1877 erosion of the sand-dunes about 400m W of Ballinaby (NR c.218 671) revealed two burials accompanied by rich grave-goods. Two skeletons lay a short distance apart with their heads to the E, at a depth of 0.4m, in an enclosure formed of stones set on edge, possibly resembling that at Kiloran Bay, Colonsay (RCAHMS 1984). One was accompanied by a sword and scabbard, a shield-boss and grip, an iron spearhead, a ferrule containing the remains of a wooden shaft, two axes, an adze, a hammer and tongs for smithing, as well as fragments of a cauldron and what may have been the terminal of a drinking-horn.
The other burial was accompanied by a silver pin with a filigree decorated head, a chain of silver wire, two oval brooches, a bronze ladle, bronze mounts decorated with repousse ornament, a mount with a curved edge, a bronze needle-case containing a needle, a glass linen-smoother and beads. Some teeth from an iron heckle were originally thought to be part of the helmet and are recorded as associated with the male grave.
RCAHMS 1984, visited June 1980
(Name Book 1878, 33, 105; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1878 (Donations), 600; J Anderson 1880, 51-69; IML 125-56)
