A Norse Viking-age grave from Cruach Mhor, Islay

Abstract

In 1958, a field survey on the west coast of Islay produced a series of artefacts which suggest that there had been a rich female Viking burial on the site. Possible grave goods included two oval brooches, beads, spindle whorl, knives, sickle and the socket of a weaving batten. An ornamental buckle loop found at the site in 1978 may also belong to the grave, which appears to date to the late-ninth or tenth century AD. Au