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Sanday, Lambaness
Burial (Viking)
Site Name Sanday, Lambaness
Classification Burial (Viking)
Alternative Name(s) Lamba Ness
Canmore ID 3426
Site Number HY63NW 20
NGR HY 61 37
NGR Description HY c. 61 37
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/3426
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Cross And Burness
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY63NW 20 c. 61 37
See also HY63NW 12, HY63NW 18, HY63NW 19.
The finding of two tortoise brooches, fragments of a penannular brooch, a jet armlet and an amber bead near the Broch of Laminess (PSAS Purchases 1915) (HY63NW 18) suggsts a 9th - 10th century Viking woman's grave.
They were purchased for the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1914.
(See also HY63NW 19)
S Grieg 1940; H Shetelig 1954.
No further information.
Visited by OS (RL) 7 July 1970.
Note (1980)
'Lambaness', Sanday HY c. 61 37 HY63NW 20
Two tortoise-brooches, penannular brooch, jet armlet, amber bead, suggest female Viking burial; the objects are in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS I L 347-50).
RCAHMS 1980
(PSAS, xlix, 1914-151, 15; Greig 1940, 86-8; RCAHMS 1946, ii, p. 44, No. 191; Curle, Olsen and Shetelig 1954, 70; Wainwright 1962, 148; OR 336)
