Category:Scotland, Argyll and Bute, Islay: Ballinaby

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Viking Age burials

Scotland, Argyll and Bute, Islay: Ballinaby 1772

Status: Possible

Current Location:

Find Type: Burial; Find Date: Excavated in 1772

Period: ?

Bodies: Male

Summary:

Publications:

Grave Goods:

Grave goods Male

Sword - Petersen type H

Ballinaby 1778

Scotland, Argyll and Bute, Islay: Ballinaby 1778

Status: Possible

Current Location:

Find Type: Burial; Find Date: Excavated in 1778

Period: ?

Bodies: Female

Summary:

Publications:

Anderson, Joeseph (1880) 'Notes on the Contents of two Viking Graves in Islay, Discovered by William Campbell, Esq., of Ballinaby; with Notices of the Burial Customs of the Norse Sea-Kings, as recorded in the Sagas and Illustrated by their Grave Mounds in Norway and in Scotland'.pp.51-89. (Available Online) The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland: Vol.14

Grave Goods:

Grave goods Female

Oval brooch (Pair)

Scotland, Argyll and Bute, Islay: Ballinaby 1878

Status: Accepted

Current Location:

Find Type: Double burial?; Find Date: Excavated in August 1878

Period: ?

Bodies: Male & Female

Summary:

Publications:

Anderson, Joeseph (1880) 'Notes on the Contents of two Viking Graves in Islay, Discovered by William Campbell, Esq., of Ballinaby; with Notices of the Burial Customs of the Norse Sea-Kings, as recorded in the Sagas and Illustrated by their Grave Mounds in Norway and in Scotland'.pp.51-89. (Available Online) The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland: Vol.14

Grieg, Sigurd (1940) Viking Antiquities in Scotland. Edited by Haakon Shetelig. (Available Online) Viking Antiquities in Great Britain and Ireland: Part 2

p.31-41

Graham-Campbell, James, and Batey, Colleen E. (1998) Vikings in Scotland, an archaeological survey. Edinburgh University Press.

p.122-125

Grave Goods:

Grave goods Male

Sword - Peteren type B

Axe 1 - Wheeler type III

Axe 2 - Wheeler type III

Spear - Petersen type , with a possible iron ferrule

Shield boss - type , with a copper-alloy handle

Drinking horn terminal (copper-alloy).

Hammer (iron); forge tongs (iron); adze (iron); cauldron (iron)

Grave goods Female

2 Oval broochs - Petersen type

Pin (silver); 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);

Scotland, Argyll and Bute, Islay: Ballinaby 1932

Status: Accepted

Current Location:

Find Type: Burial; Find Date: Excavated in 1932

Period: ?

Bodies: Male

Summary:

Publications:

Edwards, Arthur J.H. (1934) 'A Viking Cist-Grave at Ballinaby, Islay'. (Available Online) The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland: Vol.68

Grieg, Sigurd (1940) Viking Antiquities in Scotland. Edited by Haakon Shetelig. (Available Online) Viking Antiquities in Great Britain and Ireland: Part 2

p.31-41

Graham-Campbell, James, and Batey, Colleen E. (1998) Vikings in Scotland, an archaeological survey. Edinburgh University Press.

p.122-125

Redmond, Angela Z. (2007) Viking Burial in the North of England. A Study of Contact, Interaction and Reaction between Scandinavian Migrants with Resident Groups, and the effect of Immigration on Aspects of Cultural Continuity.. British Archaeological Reports: BAR 429

p.82 Appx.5 no.183

Grave Goods:

Grave goods Male

Sword - Petersen type Q

Axe

sheild

knife

ring-headed pin

buckle

Subcategories

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Anderson 1880‎ (2 C, 4 P, 28 F)

Pages in category "Scotland, Argyll and Bute, Islay: Ballinaby"

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Scotland: Ballinaby

Media in category "Scotland, Argyll and Bute, Islay: Ballinaby"

The following 32 files are in this category, out of 32 total.

Adze - Ballinaby Grave 1 (Anderson 1880).JPG 168 × 360; 30 KB
Axe 1 - Ballinaby Grave 1 (Anderson 1880).JPG 241 × 252; 27 KB
Axe 2 - Ballinaby Grave 1 (Anderson 1880).JPG 227 × 324; 28 KB
Beads - Ballinaby Grave 2 (Anderson 1880).JPG 589 × 173; 37 KB
Edwards-Axe Ballinaby.jpg 432 × 310; 55 KB
Edwards-Shield Boss Ballinaby.jpg 315 × 194; 33 KB
Edwards-Sword Ballinaby hilt.jpg 103 × 182; 12 KB
Ferrel - Ballinaby Grave 1 (Anderson 1880).JPG 480 × 120; 24 KB
Hammer - Ballinaby Grave 1 (Anderson 1880).JPG 165 × 302; 24 KB
Helmet fragment - Ballinaby Grave 1 (Anderson 1880).JPG 165 × 318; 23 KB
Ladle - Ballinaby Grave 2 (Anderson 1880).JPG 512 × 173; 25 KB
Linen Smoother - Ballinaby Grave 2 (Anderson 1880).JPG 566 × 258; 58 KB
NMS Ballinaby Boss 1877.JPG 1,024 × 559; 102 KB
NMS Ballinaby Boss.JPG 640 × 480; 137 KB
NMS Ballinaby copper-alloy pan.JPG 1,173 × 436; 44 KB
NMS Ballinaby Sword Hilt.JPG 378 × 800; 126 KB
NMS Ballinaby Sword.JPG 1,024 × 110; 84 KB
Oval brooch - Ballinaby Grave 2 (Anderson 1880).JPG 551 × 235; 57 KB
Oval Brooch spring - Ballinaby Grave 2 (Anderson 1880).JPG 373 × 123; 16 KB
Scabbard end - Ballinaby Grave 1 (Anderson 1880).JPG 154 × 323; 23 KB
Sheath Mounting - Ballinaby Grave 2 (Anderson 1880).JPG 206 × 309; 20 KB
Shield boss - Ballinaby Grave 1 (Anderson 1880).JPG 262 × 747; 41 KB
Shield Boss Ballinaby (Greig 1940).JPG 569 × 234; 19 KB
Shield Handle - Ballinaby Grave 1 (Anderson 1880).JPG 552 × 109; 20 KB
Silver Chain - Ballinaby Grave 2 (Anderson 1880).JPG 593 × 237; 36 KB
Silver Pin - Ballinaby Grave 2 (Anderson 1880).JPG 182 × 817; 26 KB
Silver plated double discs - Ballinaby Grave 2 (Anderson 1880).JPG 381 × 877; 96 KB
Spear head - Ballinaby Grave 1 (Anderson 1880).JPG 570 × 133; 31 KB
Sword - Ballinaby Grave 1 (Anderson 1880).JPG 98 × 565; 21 KB
Sword ballinaby.jpg 138 × 246; 8 KB
Sword islay.jpg 275 × 825; 30 KB
Tongs - Ballinaby Grave 1 (Anderson 1880).JPG 549 × 195; 28 KB