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Skaill
Cist (Bronze Age), Inhumation(S) (Bronze Age)
Site Name Skaill
Classification Cist (Bronze Age), Inhumation(S) (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 2061
Site Number HY31SE 11
NGR HY 350 102
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2061
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Orphir
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY31SE 11 350 102.
A cist, about 22 ins long and containing human remains, has been found in a field north of Skaill farmhouse.
RCAHMS 1946.
A cist of unspecified size was discovered by the father of Mr Slater (Mr W Slater, Skaill, Orphir, Orkney) "about 60 years ago" whilst fencing the SW side of a field in the area centred at HY 350 102. The exact find-spot is not known.
Visited by OS(NKB) 29 April 1966.
The cist is mentioned in Omond (Omond 1910) as being 'found close to the roadside' and 'held a child's skeleton.
Information via e-mail to RCAHMS from M Howe, 14 October 2005
Note (2020)
Skaill
This burial site in Orkney Islands was a focus for funerary practices in the Bronze Age period, between 2450 BC and 801 BC.
Prehistoric Grave Goods project site ID: 60125
CANMORE ID: 2061
Total no. graves with grave goods: 1
Total no. people with grave goods: 2
Total no. grave goods: 1
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 74415
Grave type: Cist
Burial type(s): Inhumation, Inhumation
Grave good: Bag
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
The bodies deposited in the cists had been cremated, and a number of stone axes and flint arrow-heads (later aquired by Mr James Cursiter) were recovered from the graves. Another cist, measuring about 22 long and containing human remains, has been found in a field N. of the same farmhouse.
Information from Orkney SMR [n.d.]
