Select List of Viking Age Settlements

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Scotland

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:
OWEN, Olwyn, and Magnar DALLAND. SCAR A Viking Boat Burial on Sanday, Orkney. Tuckwell Press, 1999.
GRAHAM-CAMPBELL, James, and Colleen E. BATEY. Vikings in Scotland, an archaeological survey. Edinburgh University Press, 1998.
Kneep, Uig, Isle of Lewis
Viking woman burial found in 1979
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Grave goods:
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Publications:
WELANDER, R.D.E., Colleen BATEY, and T.G. COWIE. “A Viking burial from Kneep, Uig, Isle of Lewis.” SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND 117, 1987: 149-174.
GRAHAM-CAMPBELL, James, and Colleen E. BATEY. Vikings in Scotland, an archaeological survey. Edinburgh University Press, 1998.
Kildonan, Isle of Eigg
Pierowall, Westray, Orkney
Langhills, Caithness
Westness, Rousay, Orkney


Isle of Mann

Balladoole, Arbory
Male grave with female body (possibly of a sacrificial slave) excavated in 1946
Grave goods:
shield boss and hand grip,
Publications:
BERSU, Gerhard, and David M. WILSON. Three Viking Graves in the Isle of Man. The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph Servies: No 1, 1966.
Cronk Moar, Jurby
excavated in 1939
Publications:
BERSU, Gerhard, and David M. WILSON. Three Viking Graves in the Isle of Man. The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph Servies: No 1, 1966.
Ballateare, Jurby
Publications:
BERSU, Gerhard, and David M. WILSON. Three Viking Graves in the Isle of Man. The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph Servies: No 1, 1966.