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Viking Age burials found in Britain

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

List by Find Date

Swordle Bay, Ardnamurchan

Viking boat burial excavated in 2011

--AD

Grave goods:

--

Publications- [HARRIS 2011]

Balnakeil, Sutherland

Viking child burial (aged 8 to 13) found in 1991

?AD

Grave goods:

Sword, shield, spear, ringed pin, beads, strap end

Publications-

• Low, Batey & Gourlay. (n.d.) A Viking Burial at Balnakeil, Sutherland.

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 and DALLAND 1999] [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL and BATEY 1998]

Kneep, Uig, Isle of Lewis

Viking woman burial found in 1979

?AD

Grave goods:

--

Publications- [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL and BATEY 1998]

• Welander, R.D.E., Colleen Batey, and T.G. Cowie. (1987) “A Viking burial from Kneep, Uig, Isle of Lewis.” SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND 117,: 149-174. (Available Online)

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]

Ballinaby, Islay

excavated in 1877

AD

Grave goods-

--

Publications- [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL and BATEY 1998:p.122-125]

Kildonan, Isle of Eigg, Inverness-shire

Pierowall, Westray, Orkney

finds from 1693, 1788, 1839, 1841, 1855, 1863

AD

Grave goods-

--

Publications- [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL and BATEY 1998:p.129-135]

Langhills, Caithness

Westness, Rousay, Orkney

References

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