| Title: |
10 Discussion
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| Issue: |
The excavation of a mound and three cist burials at Ferndall, Rendall, Orkney |
| Series: |
Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports
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| Volume: |
16
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| Number of Pages: |
24 |
| Page Start/End: |
15 - 17 |
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| Licence Type: |
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| Publication Type: |
MonographSeriesChapter
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| Abstract: |
The excavations at Ferndale have identified a complex of three cists, two of which were securely associated with a barrow and contained cremated human remains. Dates obtained from cremated bone from these cists demonstrate that the occupants of the cists died in the first quarter of the second millennium BC; as such, the mound and cists fit into an increasingly well-defined Orcadian tradition of cist burials covered by artificial mounds, although this is an apparently early example. The third cist differs in several important respects from the other two, and indeed from the majority of excavated cists in Orkney. |
| Year of Publication: |
2005
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| ISBN: |
0-903903-85-7 |
| Subjects / Periods: |
| Mound (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Cists (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Cremated Human Remains (Auto Detected Subject) |
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BARROW
(Monument Type England)
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| Cremated Bone (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Cist Burials (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Second Millennium Bc (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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| Source: |
BIAB
(DigitalBorn)
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| Created Date: |
01 Sep 2015 |
