NMS Archaeology Object 23153: X.SHC 9 - Trough / sample / bog butter
Description
Summary
Wooden trough, rectangular with flat handles at each end, contained a shrunken lump of bog-butter, from Durness, Sutherland, between c. 960 and 1260
Accession Number
X.SHC 9
Other references
HAAQ Classification Number Register Number | H.SHC 9 X.1973.210 |
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Original description
Rectangular wooden trough (SHC 9) with flat handles at either end, containg bog butter (SHC 10), found in 1969 when cutting peats near Durness, sutherland c. NC 387638. Trough cut from one solid piece of wood, 29" long x 11" max. width x 4.5" high, sides slightly bowed, flat handles 3" long. Restored from fragments in the museum laboratory, 1973. Also remains of "bog-butter" contained in trough, shrunken, irreguar and pitted lump, 13."" x 7.5" max. [MoS Description] Fat of the land. (B3) Dairy products. (You could store butter by burying it in a keg. Although it turned rancid after several weeks, it was still edible. In Viking times, handing over butter was one way of paying tax). (2) Trough with butter, Durness. 960 - 1260 AD.
Associated person/people (e.g. excavator/former collection)
None
Discovery / field collection
Date of discovery
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Method (e.g. excavation)
Not recorded
Place (i.e. location of discovery)
Grid reference
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Acquisition
Acquisition date
1973
Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)
Not recorded
Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)
Donor
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