Summary

Iron sword in seven main pieces, and the handle of a long-handled iron cooking pan, from a Viking boat burial at Kiloran Bay, Colonsay, Argyll, 875 - 925 AD

Accession Number

X.IL 759

Other references

Original description

[MOS List, Movement, II.3.2, September 1997]. [One of] Scales and weights (with rest of grave assemblage), Kiloran Bay (scales = IL 774/1, 775/1, 776; weights = IL 777-83). [MOS List, Death, II.5.1, 31.1.98.]. IL 759, iron sword in 7 main pieces; IL 759/2, handled pan. Updated from SCRAN full data set, December 1998. SD note, July 1999: Edited from SCRAN full data set. [Loan description - Q.L.1924.2] [One of] Objects included in Collection from Viking Grave, Colonsay:- Iron Sword, in pieces, not complete. [Loan description - Q.L.1924.8] [One of] Objects included in Collection from Viking Grave, Colonsay:- Iron Rivets or Clinker Nails and other miscellaneous iron objects, including two small knives, rusted together.

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)

Kiloran Bay, Colonsay, Argyll, Scotland, Northern Europe

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1898

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Lord Strathcona

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Vendor

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