Tiree
Grave (Viking), Brooch(S) (Viking), Pin (Bronze)(Viking)
Site Name Tiree
Classification Grave (Viking), Brooch(S) (Viking), Pin (Bronze)(Viking)
Canmore ID 21417
Site Number NL94NE 1
NGR NL 98 45
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/21417
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Tiree
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NL94NE 1 98 45.
Viking Burial, Tiree (Site): A pair of 'tortoise' brooches and a bronze pin are said to have been found in a grave somewhere on Tiree (centred NL 9845). One of the brooches and the pin were donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1872 (Accession nos: IL 219 & 220), and what may have been the other brooch was exhibited before the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1847, but it cannot now be traced. No further details of the burial are known.
RCAHMS 1980; J Anderson 1875; H Shetelig 1954.
RMS IL 220. Open diamond-headed pin.
L R Laing 1973.
