NMS Archaeology Object 384106: X.IB 340 - Grave slab


Description

Summary


Cross-marked grave slab of schist, from a Viking boat burial at Kiloran Bay, Colonsay, Argyll, 875 - 925 AD


Accession Number


X.IB 340


Other references

Queen Street Loan NumberQ.L.1924.34

Original description

[MOS List, Movement, II.3.2, September 1997]. [One of] Cross-marked stones from grave structure - part of the Kiloran Bay assemblage. Updated from SCRAN full data set, December 1998. SD note, July 1999: Edited from SCRAN full data set. [Loan description - Q.L.1924.33] [One of] Objects included in Collection from Viking Grave, Colonsay:- [One of] Two rough schist Slabs from enclosing stones, with incised crosses. Trevor Cowie notes, 25.6.2014: X.IB 339A comprises 10 detached flakes of schist from grave slabs, X.IB 339-340, with incised crosses, excavated in 1882-3 from a Viking boat burial at Kiloran Bay, Colonsay, Argyll. Located at time of Findlay Building decant 2009, previously un-marked and/or unregistered, and therefore allocated temporary 'Yellow Tag' (YT) number FB.YT.551. Note that without further checking, the flakes could derive from either X.IB 339 or X.IB 340; if specific fragments can be re-united with certainty with X.IB 340, a further accession number should be created.

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

Image

Image of Cross-marked grave slab of schist, from a Viking boat burial at Kiloran Bay, Colonsay, Argyll, 875 - 925 AD © National Museums Scotland
Image of Cross-marked grave slab of schist, from a Viking boat burial at Kiloran Bay, Colonsay, Argyll, 875 - 925 AD © National Museums Scotland

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