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
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2127
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Stenness
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
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.
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.]
