The excavation of the Knowes of Quoyscottie, Orkney: a cemetery of the first millenium BC
Cemetery, Stone Kerb, Orcadian Barrow, Mound, Cremation, Burnt Stones, Cremation Burials, Burials, Cremation Cemetery
First Millenium Bc, Early 1st Millennium Bc Ar, Early First Millennium Bc Hy
Abstract
HY 302228. A typical Orcadian barrow cemetery consisting of at least ten small mounds, of which four were excavated. They measured 5m-8.5m in diameter, each with a rough stone kerb, and three had cremation burials in central stone cists. Three stone ard-shares were found on the kerb stones. A flat cremation cemetery of thirty-three burials in small pits clustered on the NE perimeter of Knowe 1; some had been deposited before and during the construction of the mound. A thermoluminescence date from burnt stones within Knowe 1 and four 14C determinations from cremation samples gave results in early 1st millennium BC. AR