An unusual Iron Age burial at Hornish Point, South Uist

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1745-1744|63|241|773-778

ISSN: 0003-598x

Source: Antiquity, Vol.63, Iss.241, 1989-12, pp. : 773-778

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Abstract

Ritual, or apparently ritual, burials of Iron Age date are not uncommon in Britain. However, most of those for which records survive were recovered in less than ideal circumstances or from sites which are not securely dated. This example was recovered in recent excavations of a well-dated site, and from an area of Britain for which evidence of Iron Age burial practices is unusually scanty.