Mount

Description

Perforated mount, rectangular, cetacean bone, with perforations at either end, one broken, and series of ogam-like incised marks, Broch of Gurness, Aikerness, Orkney

Museum reference

X.GAA 1

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Mount

Materials

Cetacean bone

Collection place(s)

Broch of Gurness, Aikerness, Orkney, Scotland, Northern Europe

Associations

Craw, J. Hewat, 1933 (d.)
Richardson, James Smith, Dr, 1883 - 1970

References

Hedges, John W., Bu, Gurness and the Brochs of Orkney, Part II: Gurness, BAR British Series 164, Oxford, 1987, fig. 2.17

Links to other web pages

Canmore