Sanday, Tres Ness
Mound (Period Unknown), Bead (Glass)
Site Name Sanday, Tres Ness
Classification Mound (Period Unknown), Bead (Glass)
Alternative Name(s) Tresness
Canmore ID 3567
Site Number HY73NW 5
NGR HY 7 3
NGR Description Unlocated
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Lady
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY73NW 5 unlocated
A flat, disc -like bead of blue vitreous paste from a tumulus at Tressness (HY 71 37 - HY 70 38), Sanday (FJ 52). It probably came from the collections of Dr Wood (early 19th.c).
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1865; National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) 1892.
Note (1980)
Tresness, Sanday HY73NW 5
A 'tumulus' in Tresness was the source of a blue glass bead now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS FJ 52).
RCAHMS 1980
(PSAS, v, 1862-4, 16; OR 351)
