Category:Scotland, Orkney, Rousay: Westness
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- Status- Accepted
- Type- Cemetery with 2 boat burials. 32 graves in total, 8 of which had grave goods.
- Find date- excavated between 1968 and 1984
- Bodies-
- Dated to-
- Museum-
- Publications-
- Kaland 1993 'The Settlement of Westness, Rousey. The Viking Age in Caithness, Orkney & the North Atlantic' - Not yet available to the authors
- Grave 8. Boat Burial Male
- Boat - 4 oar faering, clinker built oak vessel. L:5.5m
- Sword -
- Shield -
- Arrows -
- Spear -
- Axe -
- Sickle -
- Plough Shear -
- Whetstone -
- Strike-a-light -
- Grave 7. Boat Burial Male
- Boat - 4 oar faering, clinker built oak vessel. L:4.5m
- Sword -
- Shield -
- Arrows -
- Whetstone -
- Strike-a-light -
- Grave 6. Oval Grave Male
- Shield -
- Arrows -
- Sickle -
- Ringed-Pin -
- Comb -
- Gaming-pieces -
- Grave 5. Oval Grave Female
- Sickle -
- Comb -
- Pennanular Brooch -
- Spindle Whorl -
- Spindle Whorl -
- Grave 4. Unknown
- -
- Grave 3. Unknown
- -
- Grave 2. Unknown
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- Grave 1. 1963 - w. full term infant Female
- Oval Brooch (Pair) -
- 40 beads
- Pennanular - silver, Irish.
- Mount - Insular.
- Strap-end -
- Strap-end -
- Comb - antler
- Sickle - iron
- Bowl - copper-alloy
- Weaving sword - iron
- shears - iron
- heckles -
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