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Quinni
Cist (Early Bronze Age), Inhumation (Early Bronze Age), Axehead (Greenstone)(Early Bronze Age)
Site Name Quinni
Classification Cist (Early Bronze Age), Inhumation (Early Bronze Age), Axehead (Greenstone)(Early Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Queena
Canmore ID 1887
Site Number HY22SE 52
NGR HY 2577 2303
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/1887
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Birsay And Harray
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY22SE 52 2577 2303.
(HY 2577 2303) Stone Cist found A.D.1860 (NAT)
OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed., (1900).
The cist was found by Magnus Johnston of Quinni when he was reclaiming the land. Six thin slabs formed the cist, which was 2 ft long by 1 ft 3 ins wide and deep. 'Together with a small quantity of brown fatty earth, there was also found in it a polished stone implement (green porphyry) 1 ft 4 ins long, 2 ins broad at one end - where the handle appeared to have been broken off - while it tapered to a point at the other: its thickness at the centre was about 1/2 in. whence it tapered to two sharp edges'.
Name Book 1880.
No further information.
Visited by OS (NKB) 23 May 1967.
Note (2020)
Quinni
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: 60124
CANMORE ID: 1887
Total no. graves with grave goods: 1
Total no. people with grave goods: 1
Total no. grave goods: 1
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 72347
Grave type: Cist
Burial type(s): Inhumation
Grave good: Axe/Axehead
Materials used: Greenstone
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/
