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====Swordle Bay, Ardnamurchan====

:Viking boat burial excavated in 2011

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:Viking boat burial including a man, woman and child found in 1985

:875-950AD

::''sword, comb, playing pieces, arrows with quiver remains, whale bone plaque, equal armed brooches, shears, cooking spit''

:Publications- [OWEN 1999] [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL 1998]

:Viking woman burial found in 1979

:?AD

::''--''

:Publications- [WELANDER 1987] [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL 1998]

:Cairn containing a cremated? male. Excavated in 1922?

:?AD

::''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) [http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-1132-1/dissemination/pdf/077/077_135_136.pdf (Available Online)]

:3 burials. 2 found in April 1891 and 1 in 1913

:AD

*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) [http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-352-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_048/48_272_291.pdf (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) [http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-352-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_048/48_292_315.pdf (Available Online)]

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