The excavation of the Knowes of Quoyscottie, Orkney: a cemetery of the first millenium BC
Keywords:
Cemetery, Stone Kerb, Orcadian Barrow, Mound, Cremation, Burnt Stones, Cremation Burials, Burials, Cremation Cemetery
Cemetery, Stone Kerb, Orcadian Barrow, Mound, Cremation, Burnt Stones, Cremation Burials, Burials, Cremation Cemetery
Period(s):
First Millenium Bc, Early 1st Millennium Bc Ar, Early First Millennium Bc Hy
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
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30-11-1979
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Hedges, M. E., Rees, S., Young, A., Lunt, D., Williams, D. F., & Jones, R. (1979). The excavation of the Knowes of Quoyscottie, Orkney: a cemetery of the first millenium BC. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 108, 130–155. https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.108.130.155
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