| Title: |
Excavation of a Bronze Age funerary site at Loth Road, Sanday, Orkney
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| Issue: |
Excavation of a Bronze Age funerary site at Loth Road, Sanday, Orkney |
| Series: |
Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports
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| Volume: |
25
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| Number of Pages: |
38 |
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| Licence Type: |
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| Publication Type: |
MonographSeriesChapter
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| Abstract: |
Excavations in 1991 beside Loth Road, Sanday, revealed a funerary site, including two cists, which contained cremated human bone, and several pits. The cremation burial in one of the cists was contained in a soapstone vessel. These features presented evidence for the sorting, selection and differential deposition of pyre remains. The cists and pits were surmounted by a kerbed cairn of unusual construction. Radiocarbon dates from the pits placed the site in the Early to Middle Bronze Age. |
| Year of Publication: |
2007
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| ISBN: |
0 903903 95 4 |
| Subjects / Periods: |
| Cremation Burial (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Kerbed Cairn (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Funerary (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Cremated Human Bone (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Bronze Age (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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PIT
(Monument Type England)
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| Vessel (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Early To Middle Bronze Age (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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| Source: |
BIAB
(DigitalBorn)
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| Created Date: |
01 May 2011 |
