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From Durness, Sutherland

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This wooden trough was found at Durness in Sutherland. It contains a shrunken lump of bog-butter. It dates from between around 960 and 1260 AD.

The rectangular trough has flat handles at each end.

The practice of burying butter in bogs was carried out over many centuries, for storage and perhaps for other reasons. The Durness butter may have been stored for use as a tax payment - a practice known from Norse documentary sources.

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