Laughton's Knowe
Barrow (Bronze Age), Cist (Bronze Age), Cremation (Bronze Age), Razor (Bronze)(Bronze Age), Sheath (Wood)(Bronze Age)
Site Name Laughton's Knowe
Classification Barrow (Bronze Age), Cist (Bronze Age), Cremation (Bronze Age), Razor (Bronze)(Bronze Age), Sheath (Wood)(Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Holm
Canmore ID 2362
Site Number HY40SE 1
NGR HY 4826 0258
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2362
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Holm
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY40SE 1 4826 0258.
(HY 4826 0258) Laughton's Knowe (NAT)
OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed.,(1903).
Laughton's Knowe is a grass covered mound about 45 ft. in diameter and 9 ft. high.
RCAHMS 1946.
A stone cist (possibly secondary) containing a Late Bronze Age cremation burial with a bronze razor in a wooden (?hazel) sheath was found in the mound about 1916.
The razor was presented to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) by Mr P Sutherland Graeme.
C M Piggott 1950.
Laughton's Knowe a mound of earth and stone is as described above, but has been mutilated in the N and E.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (RD) 28 August 1964.
The razor is held in the National Museum of Scotland under accession number Royal Museum of Scotland EQ 557.
J M Coles 1966.
Field Visit (28 August 1964)
Laughton's Knowe a mound of earth and stone is as described above, but has been mutilated in the N and E.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (RD) 28 August 1964.
Note (2020)
Laughton's Knowe
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: 60004
CANMORE ID: 2362
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: 73827
Grave type: Cist
Burial type(s): Cremation
Grave good: Razor
Materials used: Bronze/Cu Alloy [Bronze], Wood [Hazel]
Current museum location: National Museum of Scotland
Museum accession no.: X.EQ 557; X.EQ 558
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/
