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Sanday, Sties
Cauldron (Viking)
Site Name Sanday, Sties
Classification Cauldron (Viking)
Canmore ID 3517
Site Number HY64SE 25
NGR HY 6 4
NGR Description Unlocated
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Cross And Burness
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY64SE 25 unlocated
See also HY64SE 18.
A Viking iron cauldron, said to have contained a skull, found at Sties, Sanday, was donated to the Hunterian Museum but could not be located 1940. It was exhibited in Glasgow in 1911 when it was in the possession of J Cursiter.
(See also HY64SE 18).
S Grieg 1940.
Note (1980)
'Sties', Sanday HY64SE 25
Viking cauldron.
RCAHMS 1980
(Greig 1940, 172; OR 327)
Orkney Smr Note
An iron cauldron of the Viking period was exhibited at the 1911 Glasgow exhibition, where it was taken for a helmet. According to a communication from Mr Cursiter this cauldron was bought, with the rest of his collection, by Mr Bishop, and was afterwards deposited in the Hunterian Museum, where it now proved
impossible to find it. Found at Sties in Sanday, Orkney, with a skull, reported to have been found lying in the cauldron. [R1[,[R2]
The cauldron is probably a sheild-boss. Inf S Kaland, Bergen, Sep 1980.
Most likely Sties of Brough, but see sword from same-named provenance which H Marwick believed to come from Sty Wick. OR 324, OR 325. See also OR 326.
Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) [n.d]
