Sanday, Braeswick
Burial (Viking)
Site Name Sanday, Braeswick
Classification Burial (Viking)
Canmore ID 3421
Site Number HY63NW 16
NGR HY 611 371
NGR Description HY c. 611 371
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Cross And Burness
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY63NW 16 c. 611 371.
(HY 611 371) A portion of a narrow subterranean passage was accidentally discovered in the Braeswick district and finds recovered at the time, said to have been wrapped in a piece of seal or other skin and comprising a bronze tortoise Viking brooch, two beads of amber and one of blue glass were purchased for the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1914 (IL 343 - 6). Some rude stone vessels are said to have accompanied them.
The site has been covered over and no structure is now visible, but Grieg classifies this as a burial and Wainwright further states it was a woman's grave.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1915; S Grieg 1940; RCAHMS 1946, visited 1928; F T Wainwright 1962.
No further information.
Visited by OS (RL) 7 July 1970.
Note (1980)
'Braeswick', Sanday HY c. 61 37 HY63NW 16
A group of objects, now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland
(NMAS I L 343-6), comprising a tortoise-brooch and beads of amber and glass, suggests a female Viking burial.
RCAHMS 1980
(PSAS, xlix, 1914-15, 14; Greig 1940, 88; RCAHMS 1946, ii, p. 45, No. 192; Wainwright 1962, 148; OR 335)
