Barra
Grave (Viking), Comb (Bone)(Viking)
Site Name Barra
Classification Grave (Viking), Comb (Bone)(Viking)
Canmore ID 9728
Site Number NF60SE 26
NGR NF 6 0
NGR Description Unlocated
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/9728
- Council Western Isles
- Parish Barra
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Inverness-shire
NF60SE 26 unlocated.
A large bone comb, formerly in the collections of Mrs McNeill, Newton House, Lochmaddy, and H H Mackenzie, factor of the North Uist estates, is now in the Royal Museum of Scotland (RMS, formerly the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland [NMAS]) (GT 1019). It is probably that mentioned in 1888 as having been 'found in a stone cist on the island of Barra'; and may have come from an otherwise unrecorded Viking grave.
International Exhibation, Glasgow 1888; J Close-Brooks and S Maxwell 1975.
