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Lewis, High Borve
Bog Butter (11th Century)
Site Name Lewis, High Borve
Classification Bog Butter (11th Century)
Canmore ID 4364
Site Number NB45NW 8
NGR NB 420 557
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/4364
- Council Western Isles
- Parish Barvas
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NB45NW 8 420 557.
Two balls of cream coloured fat with clear yellow flecks and a suety smell were found during peat cutting by Mr Mackenzie. When removed, the first ball was found to be partly covered with thin skin and fibrous vegetable matter, identified as animal gut or bladders and straw, by NMAS laboratory, where both are being conserved and analysed.
M MacRae, G Ponting, M Ponting and D Caldwell 1983.
This object remains (unregistered) in the NMS. It comprises two spheres of bog butter wrapped in animal intestines, and has been radiocarbon-dated to 1020-1158 AD (UB-3737).
NMRS, MS/996/1.
