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Stenness

Building (Viking), Inhumation (Viking), Pin (Bronze)(Viking)

Site Name Stenness

Classification Building (Viking), Inhumation (Viking), Pin (Bronze)(Viking)

Canmore ID 2127

Site Number HY31SW 4

NGR HY 32 11

NGR Description HY c. 32 11

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Orkney Islands
  • Parish Stenness
  • Former Region Orkney Islands Area
  • Former District Orkney
  • Former County Orkney

Archaeology Notes

HY31SW 4 c. 32 11.

An unburnt burial, accompanied by a bronze ring-headed pin of Viking form, was found by Charleston near Stenness in 1902, immediately above the very dilapidated remains of a building which was about 2 ft below ground level.

The pin was purchased by the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1908 ( FC 193 ).

M M Charleston 1904-5; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1909 (Purchases); RCAHMS 1946; H Shetelig 1954.

No further information.

Visited by OS (NKB) 8 May 1966.

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Orkney Smr Note

There is a description of the skull and the pin and photos of each. [R1]

Pin of Bronze, 6 3/8in in length, with a perforation in the head through which a ring 3/4in in diameter passes... [R2] [R3]

...and a grave at Stennes where the sex of the person buried cannot be determined, as the grave contained only a ring headed pin. [R4]

Information from Orkney SMR [n.d.]

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