Scotland: Ballinaby

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Location: Ballinaby, Islay, Argyll and Bute, Scotland
Find Date: August 1878
Bodies: Double burial? Male & Female
Context: '
Dated to: '
Museum: Wikingr Museum Haithabu ()
Grave Goods: '


Ballinaby

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Catalogue of Grave Goods

Male Grave

NMS Ballinaby Male.jpg


Peteren type B
Wheeler type III
Wheeler type III
  • Spear
Petersen type , with a possible iron ferrule
  • Fishing Spear
type , with a copper-alloy handle
  • Drinking horn terminal (copper-alloy).
  • Hammer (iron); ; ;
  • Forge tongs (iron)
  • Adze (iron)
  • Cauldron (iron)

Female Gave

NMS Ballinaby Female.jpg


  • 2 Oval broochs - Petersen type
  • Pin (silver) with a flat chain of four-stranded wire (silver)
  • 12 beads
  • possible fragment of a Drinking horn rim (copper-alloy)
  • 4 round plates (copper-alloy)
  • Ladle (copper-alloy)
  • Glass linen smoother
  • Teeth from a heckle (iron)
  • Needle-case (copper-alloy)
  • Silver plated double discs

References

The Ballinaby Burial

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