Gartymore
Animal Remains, Cup, Tongs (Viking)
Site Name Gartymore
Classification Animal Remains, Cup, Tongs (Viking)
Canmore ID 7496
Site Number ND01SW 6
NGR ND 014 138
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/7496
- Council Highland
- Parish Kildonan
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
ND01SW 6 014 138.
A pair of iron forge tongs, possibly Viking, from near the broch of Gartymore (ND01SW 2), were donated to Dunrobin Museum, through Sergent Anderson, Helmsdale, on March 17th 1891. (Accession no. X122).
The label indicates that they were found with burnt bone, charcoal, deerhorn and two pieces of broken stone cup. Grieg (1940) accepts the tongs as being a Viking type.
S Grieg 1940; Information from TS of the Catalogue of Dunrobin Museum, by A S Henshall, 1966.
