from Machrins, Colonsay, Inner Hebrides
Add to albumThese iron rivets and nails were found in a Norse grave at Machrins on Colonsay in the Inner Hebrides. The other grave goods indicate that a wealthy man was buried there, and these rivets suggest the possibility that he was buried in a boat.
There are eleven well documented Norse burials on Colonsay, Oronsay and Islay, and there may be as many more. Some were wealthy people, buried with a range of valuable and utilitarian objects. A boat burial is also known from elsewhere on Colonsay.
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- Online ID: 000-000-099-756-C
- Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
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Kiloran Bay Viking Burial (multimedia essay)
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- Ref: National Museums Scotland
- Date: Between 850 and 950
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- Graham-Campbell, James and Batey, Colleen E. Vikings in Scotland. An Archaeological Survey. Edinburgh: University Press, 1998, pp 89-91.
- Grieg, Sigurd. Viking Antiquities in Scotland (=Viking Antiquities in Great Britain and Ireland, Part II, ed. by Haakon Shetelig). Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co., 1940, p 48.
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