Rousay, Swandro
Ring (Silver)(Viking)
Site Name Rousay, Swandro
Classification Ring (Silver)(Viking)
Alternative Name(s) Westness, Rousay
Canmore ID 2192
Site Number HY32NE 4
NGR HY 37 29
NGR Description HY c. 37 29
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Rousay And Egilsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY32NE 4 c. 37 29
See also HY32NE 3, HY32NE 7 and HY32NE 17.
Base-silver finger ring with narrowing and overlapping ends, ornamented with stamped dots on either side of a central ridge, from W G Grant's excavations (incomplete and unpublished) at Swandro. Probably from a habitation site. Now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS, Accession no: HD 748).
H Shetelig (ed.) 1954.
There seems no doubt that the above find was made in the same area as the Viking female burial (HY32NE 7) discovered in 1963, and it is suggested that there was a cemetery in the area.
(See also HY32NE 17 - Viking Hall and HY32NE 3 - Viking sword and shield boss).
Information from a telecommunication by A S Henshall, 20 July 1966.
Note (1982)
Swandro area HY 37 28 HY32NE 4
Base-silver finger-ring, said to be from Grant's excavations at the Knowe of Swandro (HY32NE 19), but likely to originate from the same cemetery as HY32NE 37. NMAS HD 748.
RCAHMS 1982
(Curle, Olsen and Shetelig 1954, 238; OR 547)
