Keiss
Mound (Period Unassigned), Bead (Glass), Bead (Amber), Pin (Bone), Ring (Jet), Spindle Whorl (Steatite)
Site Name Keiss
Classification Mound (Period Unassigned), Bead (Glass), Bead (Amber), Pin (Bone), Ring (Jet), Spindle Whorl (Steatite)
Alternative Name(s) Keiss Moor
Canmore ID 126356
Site Number ND36SW 36
NGR ND 34 61
NGR Description ND c. 34 61
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/126356
- Council Highland
- Parish Wick
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND36SW 36 c. 34 61
An amber bead, possibly associated with a bone pin with a square ornamented head, a rudely-shaped whorl of steatite, a cylindrical bead of black glass and a ring of jet, from a mound on Keiss Moor, is in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS, Accession no. FL13).
The bead is a medium-sized, flat, thin disk with rounded edges, circular in cross-section and rounded rectangular in longitudinal section. It measures 17mm in diameter and 8mm in thickness.
C Beck and S Shennan 1991
