Summary

Fragment of a horse bit, a knife tang, a knife blade, a boat nail and pan fragments, all of iron, from a Viking boat burial at Kiloran Bay, Colonsay, Argyll, 875 - 925 AD

Accession Number

X.IL 765

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 765/4, portion of horse bit assembly; IL 765/3, boat rivet; IL 765/5, 7, iron knife blade; IL 765/2, handled pan. [AS note, 16.2.98]. IL 765. This number must originally have been given to a selection of corroded iron frags. [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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