33044: KNEEP, VALTOS, LEWIS – FINDSPOT (Undated)

Summary:

FINDSPOT (Undated)
Findspot of pottery, copper alloy objects

Location:

NB 09920 36368

Full description:

NB03NE 15.1 099 363.

Within dark soil layer in dune blowout close to the Viking burial was found one copper or bronze strip, 46mm long and 5mm wide, with inscribed pattern on one side, and 2 punched holes; also one copper or bronze rivet.
G Curtis and M Curtis 1989.

References:

1989. ‘Traigh na Berie (Uig parish), metal strip and rivet’, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland. 71

Acknowledgement:

Information provided by Western Isles Council Sites & Monuments Record, January 2006.