Pottery / cinerary urn

Description

Cremation urn, reconstructed from fragments, part of base missing, from the cairn at Cnip (Kneep) headland, Uig, Lewis, Western Isles

Museum reference

X.EQ 1109

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Pottery / cinerary urn

Materials

Pottery

Physical description

Quartz

Collection place(s)

Cnip, Uig, Lewis, Inverness-shire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Associations

Excavator: Close-Brooks, Joanna, Dr, 1972 - 1990 (fl.)

References

Close-Brooks, J ‘Excavation of a cairn at Cnip, Uig, Isle of Lewis’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot 125 (1995), 253-277, fiche 1: F11-G14

Armit, I (1994 ) 'Archaeological field survey of the Bhaltos (Valtos) peninsula, Lewis', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 124, 1994, No.2, 74, 75, 91

Close-Brooks, J (1976 ) 'Lewis, Valtos, Uig, Kneep Headland, kerb cairn', Discovery Excav Scot, 1976, 56-7

Close-Brooks, J (1978 c) 'Lewis, Valtos, cairn', Discovery Excav Scot, 1978, 34

Close-Brooks, J (1978 d) ‘Kneep, Uig, Isle of Lewis, Ross-shire, NB 099 363', Proc Prehist Soc, 44, 1978, 446

Close-Brooks, J (1995 b) 'Excavation of a cairn at Cnip, Uig, Isle of Lewis', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 125, 1995

Dunwell, Neighbour and Cowie, A J, T and T G (1995 ) 'A cist burial adjacent to the Bronze Age cairn at Cnip, Uig, Isle of Lewis', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 125, 1995, 279, 287

Lacaille, A D (1937 a) 'A stone industry at, potsherds and a bronze pin from Valtos, Uig, Lewis', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 71, 1936-7, 279-82

PSAS (1981 ) 'Donations to and purchases for the Museum and Library', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 110, 1978-80, 535

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