Lyking
Cist (Early Bronze Age), Inhumation (Early Bronze Age), Cinerary Urn (Steatite)(Early Bronze Age)
Site Name Lyking
Classification Cist (Early Bronze Age), Inhumation (Early Bronze Age), Cinerary Urn (Steatite)(Early Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 1617
Site Number HY21NE 26
NGR HY 2699 1549
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/1617
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Sandwick
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY21NE 26 2699 1549.
HY 270 155 A short cist was ploughed up on the top of a natural mound, c. 1940, by Mr.A.Robertson. The cist, though filled with earth, is in situ and is constructed of flagstones set on edge, with a cover-stone: the bottom is thought to be flagged. It contained a steatite urn and the remains of a skeleton, thought to have been crouched. The urn was presented to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland. (EK 44) by Mr Robertson in 1952.(Mr G N Robertson)
H Marwick 1951.
The find spot of the cist, as described above, was pointed out on the ground by Mr G W Robertson (Information given by Mr G W Robertson to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) and on private 6"map 14 September 1949.) at HY 2699 1549.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (NKB) 20 May 1966.
Note (2020)
Lyking
This burial site in Orkney Islands was a focus for funerary practices in the Bronze Age period, between 2200 BC and 1501 BC.
Prehistoric Grave Goods project site ID: 60178
CANMORE ID: 1617
Total no. graves with grave goods: 1
Total no. people with grave goods: 1
Total no. grave goods: 2
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 60068
Grave type: Cist
Burial type(s): Inhumation
Grave good: Vessel (Unknown/Unspecified)
Materials used: Steatite
Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Museum accession no.: X.EK 44
Grave good: Food Residue
Materials used: Organic (Uncertain/Unspecified)
Current museum location: Unknown
Further details, the full project database and downloads of project publications can be found here: https://doi.org/10.5284/1052206
An accessible visualisation of the database can be found here: http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/grave-goods/map/
Orkney Smr Note
Extract from letter from the finder. (To NMAS 14/9/49)
The cist was 4ft long by 2.5ft wide by 3ft deep. There is an
illustration of the urn fig 6(a).
Information from Orkney SMR [n.d.]
