NMS Archaeology Object 168480: X.IL 751 - Spearhead / portion


Description

Summary


Two pieces of an iron socketed spearhead, from Grishipoll, Coll, Argyll, Viking period, 800 - 1100 AD


Accession Number


X.IL 751


Other references


1978.145
F Ack 1978/37

Original description

Iron: Iron socketed spearhead in two pieces; the mouth of the socket is missing. Found with an inhumation burial in the early 1950's. The inhumation was discovered in the sand-hills about 750m NNE of Grishipoll (approx NM 191 598). the spearhead was found under a flat slab at one end of the grave. Of the skeleton, only part of the mandible survived (mandible sent to Natural History department, Royal scottish Museum: report by Dr D A Lunt). Ritchie, J N G et al, 1978, 95 - 96, fig 10. Donated [...] (see also HRA 2 - 4).

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)

Grishipoll, Coll, Argyll, Scotland, Northern Europe

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1950

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Not recorded

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

Image

Image of Two pieces of an iron socketed spearhead, from Grishipoll, Coll, Argyll, Viking period, 800 - 1100 AD © National Museums Scotland
Image of Two pieces of an iron socketed spearhead, from Grishipoll, Coll, Argyll, Viking period, 800 - 1100 AD © National Museums Scotland

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