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Revision as of 13:40, 11 September 2015
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
Argyll
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Lewis
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Skye
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List by Find Date
Swordle Bay, Ardnamurchan, Argyll
- Viking boat burial excavated in 2011
- --AD
- Grave goods:
- --
- Publications-
Balnakeil, Durness, Sutherland
- Viking child burial (aged 8 to 13) found in 1991
- ?AD
- Grave goods:
- Sword, shield, spear, ringed pin, beads, strap end
- Publications-
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-
Kneep, Uig, Isle of Lewis
- Viking woman burial found in 1979
- ?AD
- Grave goods:
- --
- Publications-
Westness, Rousay, Orkney
- excavated between 1968 and 1984
- AD
- Grave goods-
- --
Publications-
St. Ninian's Isle
- excavated in 1958
- Viking babies
- Grave goods-
- Hoard of Pictish silver bowls, cups and jewellery found in a box. Dated to just prior to 800AD.[OLIVER 2012:p.187]
Publications-
Broch of Gurness, Mainland, Orkney
- excavated in 1932
- AD
- Grave goods-
- --
Publications-
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-
Carn a' Bharraich, Oronsay, Argyll
- 3 burials. 2 found in April 1891 and 1 in 1913
- AD
- Grave goods:
- --
- Publications-
- 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)
- 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)
Reay, Caithness
- excavated in 1912
- AD
- Grave goods-
- --
Publications-
Kiloran Bay, Colonsay
- excavated in 1882
- AD
- Grave goods-
- --
Publications- [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL and BATEY 1998:p.118-122]
- Anderson, J. (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 Museum 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 Vol.41 (pp 437-50).
Ballinaby, Islay
- excavated in 1877
- AD
- Grave goods-
- --
Publications- [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL and BATEY 1998:p.122-125]
Pierowall, Westray, Orkney
- finds from 1693, 1788, 1839, 1841, 1855, 1863
- AD
- Grave goods-
- --
Publications- [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL and BATEY 1998:p.129-135]
Kildonan, Isle of Eigg, Inverness-shire
Langhills, Caithness
References
Graham-Campbell, James; Batey, Colleen; Clarke, Helen; Page, R.I. and Price, Neil S. (1994) Cultural Atlas of the Viking World. [Graham-Campbell 1994] ^ *
Graham-Campbell, James, and Batey, Colleen E. (1998) Vikings in Scotland, an archaeological survey. Edinburgh University Press. [Graham-Campbell & Batey 1998] *
Owen, Olwyn, and Dalland, Magnar (1999) SCAR, A Viking Boat Burial on Sanday, Orkney. Tuckwell Press. [Owen & Dalland 1999] *