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
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/306622
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Lady
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
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/