Category:Scotland, Orkney, Rousay: Westness

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This article's completion rating is 2 out of 5. Article structure and content is subject to change as data is still being collected.

See also Viking burials found in Scotland

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 
• Graham-Campbell, James, and Batey, Colleen E. (1998) Vikings in Scotland, an archaeological survey. Edinburgh University Press. p.135-138
• Redmond, Angela Z. (2007) Viking Burial in the North of England. A Study of Contact, Interaction and Reaction between Scandinavian Migrants with Resident Groups, and the effect of Immigration on Aspects of Cultural Continuity.. British Archaeological Reports: BAR 429 p.78 ^{[Redmond 2007]}

 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  

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 Grave 3. Unknown  

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 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 -