Summary

Bronze drinking-horn terminal from a Viking burial at Ballinaby, Islay

Accession Number

X.IL 127

Other references

Original description

VIKING PERIOD. Bronze scabbard-head or mounting of head of quiver. No. I, Ballinaby, Islay. Anon notes, '(Tip of Drinking-horn)'. Fraser Hunter note, February 1995: The residual organic material inside the tip of the horn was examined microscopically by Theo Skinner (C&AR), 31.1.95. Without SEM examination, certainty is impossible - however, the material is most likely to be horn, as it has the visual characteristics of horn, and none of the characteristics of wood.

Associated person/people (e.g. excavator/former collection)

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Not recorded

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Ballinaby, Islay, Argyll, Scotland, Northern Europe

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1878

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

William Campbell

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

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