Notes on (1) a Two-storeyed Grave at Little Asta, Shetland; (2) Certain Prehistoric Relics from Shetland; and (3) a Viking Brooch of Silver from Skaill Bay, Orkney

Abstract

A stone cist comprising two compartments contained both burnt and unburnt bone in its lower storey, with a decayed skeleton and two steatite bowls in its upper. No mound survived. Notes on miscellaneous objects from Shetland including axes, adzes, 'Shetland knives', flint arrowheads, a soapstone dish, a club-like implement and a pennanular bronze brooch. A Viking brooch from Skaill Bay was part of a hoard discovered in 1858.