| Title: |
Excavation of a Bronze Age burial at Mousland, Stromness, Orkney
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| Issue: |
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 124 |
| Series: |
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
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| Volume: |
124
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| Page Start/End: |
141 - 154 |
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| Licence Type: |
ADS Terms of Use and Access
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| Publication Type: |
Journal
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| Abstract: |
An earthen burial mound with a surrounding kerb was excavated in 1990. The central cist contained a cremation of an adult, possibly female. A polished stone axe lay outside the cist. A radiocarbon date from charcoal within the cist showed the remains to be of Early/Middle Bronze Age date. The cist and kerb were constructed before the mound, which was built up from successive deposits of turves and soil. Palaeobotanical and micromorphological analyses demonstrate the landscape to have been open grassland and heathland. There are reports on `Mound sequence: the preparation of the ground' by J Downes & C French (143--4), `The contents of the cist' by C Dickson, J Downes, J I McKinley & P Hinton (146--7), `The structure of the mound' by J Downes, C French, P Hinton & R Scaife (147--8). |
| Year of Publication: |
1994
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FUNERARY SITE
(Monument Type England)
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| Charcoal (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Micromorphological Analyses (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Cremation (Auto Detected Subject) |
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| Cist (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Bronze Age (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| 1478 (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Burial Mound (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Mound (Auto Detected Subject) |
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| Source: |
ADS Archive
(ADS Archive)
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| Created Date: |
20 Jan 2002 |
