Bay Of Skaill
Long Cist (Viking), Animal Remains (Viking), Comb (Bone)(Viking), Spearhead (Viking)
Site Name Bay Of Skaill
Classification Long Cist (Viking), Animal Remains (Viking), Comb (Bone)(Viking), Spearhead (Viking)
Canmore ID 1665
Site Number HY21NW 13
NGR HY 2295 1874
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/1665
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Sandwick
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY21NW 13 2295 1874.
A long cist containing a male skeleton was found here in the spring of 1888, immediately behind the present day shoreline. The burial was accompanied by a bone comb and comb case, an iron arrowhead, a spearhead, a knife and a whetstone; a horse leg-bone and bird and fish bones were also recovered. Dating is by typological consideration of the artefacts (which are in RMS: IL 230-5), and can be placed in the Viking period, probably the ninth century or later.
W G T Watt 1888; A W Brogger 1929; S Grieg 1940; H Shetelig 1945; RCAHMS 1946; F T Wainwright 1962; C D Morris et al 1985.
