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Sanday, Stenchme

Animal Burial(S) (Early Bronze Age), Cist (Early Bronze Age), Inhumation (Early Bronze Age), Unidentified Object(S) (Flint)(Early Bronze Age), Unidentified Pottery (Pottery)(Early Bronze Age)

Site Name Sanday, Stenchme

Classification Animal Burial(S) (Early Bronze Age), Cist (Early Bronze Age), Inhumation (Early Bronze Age), Unidentified Object(S) (Flint)(Early Bronze Age), Unidentified Pottery (Pottery)(Early Bronze Age)

Alternative Name(s) Lopness

Canmore ID 306622

Site Number HY74SE 34

NGR HY 75840 43960

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

C14 Radiocarbon Dating

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Administrative Areas

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

Activities

Orkney Smr Note (2000)

Cist,measuring 1.3m N-S by 0.9m E-W was excavated in 2000 prior to being lost to marine erosion. The cist contained a crouched inhumation with lithics and some pot sherds. See Robertson and Downes 2000 for excavation report

Information from Orkney SMR, 2000

Full report forthcoming on SAIR

Field Visit (4 May 2015)

ShoreUPDATE 4 May 2015

Filled with beach stones and seaweed, only top edge of one stone visible.

Note (2020)

Lopness

This burial site in Orkney Islands was a focus for funerary practices in the Bronze Age period, between 2200 BC and 1501 BC.

Prehistoric Grave Goods project site ID: 60180

CANMORE ID: 306622

Total no. graves with grave goods: 1

Total no. people with grave goods: 1

Total no. grave goods: 4

Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 60070

Grave type: Cist

Burial type(s): Inhumation

Grave good: Animal Burial (Specified type)

Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]

Current museum location: Unknown

Grave good: Assemblage

Materials used: Coral/Shell [Shell]

Current museum location: Unknown

Grave good: Animal Burial (Specified type)

Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone]

Current museum location: Unknown

Grave good: Assemblage (Mixed)

Materials used: Bone/Antler/Horn/Ivory/Tooth (Animal) [Bone], Organic (Uncertain/Unspecified), Chert / Flint [Flint], Charred Plant Remains, Pottery

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/

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