Viking burials found in Scotland
This list of burials is currently a work in progress. More information will be added over time but it is hoped that even the meager information supplied here will be of some use.
The map is derived from Richards [Richards 2004]:p.191 Graham-Campbell [Graham-Campbell 1994]:p.134, 153 and from a map displayed from a Jorvik exhibition in York 2012.
Viking burials found in England
Viking burials found in the Isle of Man
Index by County
Argyll
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Lewis
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Skye
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List by Find Date
Swordle Bay, Ardnamurchan, Argyll
- Viking boat burial excavated in 2011
- --AD
- Grave goods:
- --
- Publications-
- Harris, Cobb, Gray & Richardson (2011) 'Viking Boat Burial, Swordle Bay, Ardnamurchan'. Ardnamurchan Transitions Report no.17. (Available Online) [Harris, Cobb, Gray & Richardson 2011] *
Balnakeil, Durness, Sutherland
- Viking child burial (aged 8 to 13) found in 1991
- ?AD
- Grave goods:
- Sword, shield, spear, ringed pin, beads, strap end
- Publications-
- Graham-Campbell, James, and Batey, Colleen E. (1998) Vikings in Scotland, an archaeological survey. Edinburgh University Press. [Graham-Campbell & Batey 1998] *p.140-142
Scar, Sanday, Orkney
- Viking boat burial including a man, woman and child found in 1985
- 875-950AD
- Grave goods-
- sword, comb, playing pieces, arrows with quiver remains, whale bone plaque, equal armed brooches, shears, cooking spit
- Publications-
- Graham-Campbell, James, and Batey, Colleen E. (1998) Vikings in Scotland, an archaeological survey. Edinburgh University Press. [Graham-Campbell & Batey 1998] *p.138-140
Kneep, Uig, Isle of Lewis
- Viking woman burial found in 1979
- ?AD
- Grave goods:
- --
- Publications-
- Graham-Campbell, James, and Batey, Colleen E. (1998) Vikings in Scotland, an archaeological survey. Edinburgh University Press. [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL & BATEY 1998] *
Westness, Rousay, Orkney
- excavated between 1968 and 1984
- AD
- Grave goods-
- --
Publications- [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL and BATEY 1998:p.135-138]
St. Ninian's Isle
- excavated in 1958
- Viking babies
- Grave goods-
- Hoard of Pictish silver bowls, cups and jewellery found in a box. Dated to just prior to 800AD.[OLIVER 2012:p.187]
Publications- [OLIVER 2012:p.187]
Broch of Gurness, Mainland, Orkney
- excavated in 1932
- AD
- Grave goods-
- --
Publications- [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL and BATEY 1998:p.127-129]
Tote,Skeabost, Isle of Skye
- Cairn containing a cremated? male. Excavated in 1922?
- ?AD
- Grave goods:
- Axe head and part of the wooden shaft; hone; copper alloy pin; ivory bead; possible shield fragments of iron and wood.
- Publications-
- T. C. Lethbridge (1920) 'A Burial of the Viking Age in Skye '. Archaeological Journal 77 (pp. 135-136) (Available Online)
Carn a' Bharraich, Oronsay, Argyll
- 3 burials. 2 found in April 1891 and 1 in 1913
- AD
- Grave goods:
- --
- Publications- [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL and BATEY 1998:p.113-118]
- McNeill, Malcolm (1891) 'Notice of Excavations in a Burial Mound of the Viking Time, in Oronsay'. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 25 (pp 432-5) (Available Online)
- Anderson, Joseph (1907) 'Notice of Bronze Brooches and Personal Ornaments from a Ship-burial of the Viking time in Oronsay, and other Bronze Ornaments from Colonsay. Presented to the National Musem by the Right Hon. Lord Strathcona and Mount-Royal, G.C.M.G. With Description, from Notes by the late William Galloway, of a ship-burial of the Viking time at Kiloran Bay, Colonsay' . Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 41 (pp 437-50) (Available Online)
- Grieve, Symington (1924) 'Note upon Carn nan Bharraich, or Cairn of the Men of Barra, a Burial Mound of the Viking Time on the Island of Oronsay, Argyllshire, with an outline of the Political History of the Western Isles during the latter half of the Ninth Century'. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 48 (pp 272-91) (Available Online)
- Curle, James (1924) 'On recent Scandinavian Grave-finds from the Island of Oronsay, and from Reay, Caithness, with Notes on the Development and Chronology of the Oval Brooch of the Viking Time'. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 48 (pp 292-315) (Available Online)
Reay, Caithness
- excavated in 1912
- AD
- Grave goods-
- --
Publications- [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL and BATEY 1998:p.125-127]
Kiloran Bay, Colonsay
- excavated in 1882
- AD
- Grave goods-
- --
Publications- [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL and BATEY 1998:p.118-122]
- Anderson, J. (1907) 'Notice of Bronze Brooches and Personal Ornaments from a Ship-burial of the Viking time in Oronsay, and other Bronze Ornaments from Colonsay. Presented to the National Museum by the Right Hon. Lord Strathcona and Mount-Royal, G.C.M.G. With Description, from Notes by the late William Galloway, of a ship-burial of the Viking time at Kiloran Bay, Colonsay.' Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Vol.41 (pp 437-50).
Ballinaby, Islay
- excavated in 1877
- AD
- Grave goods-
- --
Publications- [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL and BATEY 1998:p.122-125]
Pierowall, Westray, Orkney
- finds from 1693, 1788, 1839, 1841, 1855, 1863
- AD
- Grave goods-
- --
Publications- [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL and BATEY 1998:p.129-135]
Kildonan, Isle of Eigg, Inverness-shire
Langhills, Caithness
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