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Assembling places and persons: a tenth-century Viking boat burial from Swordle Bay on the Ardnamurchan peninsula, western Scotland
Harris, O.J.T. Cobb, H. Batey, C.E. Montgomery, Janet Beaumont, Julia Gray, H. Murtagh, P. Richardson, P.
Harris, O.J.T.
Cobb, H.
Batey, C.E.
Montgomery, Janet
Beaumont, Julia
Gray, H.
Murtagh, P.
Richardson, P.
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A rare, intact Viking boat burial in western
Scotland contained a rich assemblage of grave
goods, providing clues to the identity and
origins of both the interred individual and
the people who gathered to create the site. The
burial evokes the mundane and the exotic,
past and present, as well as local, national
and international identities. Isotopic analysis
of the teeth hints at a possible Scandinavian
origin for the deceased, while Scottish, Irish
and Scandinavian connections are attested by
the grave goods. Weapons indicate a warrior
of high status; other objects imply connections
to daily life, cooking and work, farming
and food production. The burial site is itself
rich in symbolic associations, being close to a
Neolithic burial cairn, the stones of which may have been incorporated into the grave.
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Harris OJT, Cobb H, Batey CE, Montgomery J, Beaumont J, Gray H, Murtagh P and Richardson P (2017) Assembling places and persons: a
tenth-century Viking boat burial from
Swordle Bay on the Ardnamurchan
peninsula, western Scotland. Antiquity. 91(355): 191-206.
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The accepted post-review manuscript here was submitted under the title: "The Viking boat burial on Ardnamurchan".