Category:Scotland, Orkney, Rousay: Westness
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Graves 1968-1984
- 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 11. 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 34. Boat Burial Male
- Boat - 4 oar faering, clinker built oak vessel. L:4.5m
- Sword -
- Sword - fragment of blade. Both parts may be from one sword.
- Shield -
- Arrows -
- Whetstone -
- Strike-a-light -
- Grave . Oval Grave Male
- Shield -
- Arrows -
- Sickle -
- Ringed-Pin -
- Comb -
- Gaming-pieces -
- Grave . Oval Grave Female
- Sickle -
- Comb -
- Pennanular Brooch -
- Spindle Whorl -
- Spindle Whorl -
- Grave 12. Male
- -
- Grave . Unknown
- -
- Grave . Unknown
- -
Grave 1963
- Status- Accepted
- Type-
- Find date- found in 1963
- Bodies- female skeleton with a full term infant
- 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 goods 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 -
Grave 1826 Sweindrow
- Status- Accepted
- Type-
- Find date- found in 1826
- Bodies-
- Dated to-
- Museum-
- Publications-
- Grave Goods Male
- Sword -
- Shield - possibly from the same grave?
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