Europe, British Isles, Scotland, Orkney Islands, Orkney Northern Islands, Westray
Links of Noltland
Lum Head Chambered Cairn
Holm of Papa Westray Chambered Cairn Centre
Holm of Papa Westray Chambered Cairn North
Holm of Papa Westray Chambered Cairn South
Knap of Howar
Pierowall Quarry Chambered Cairn
Westray is in Orkney Northern Islands.
Europe, British Isles, Scotland, Orkney Islands, Orkney Northern Islands, Westray, Links of Noltland [Map]
Links of Noltland is also in Orkney Neolithic Farmsteads.
3300BC to 800BC. Links of Noltland [Map] is a farming settlement. Neolithic remains include a dozen buildings and the 'Westray Wifie' figurine. Grobust Bay is also home to Orkney's largest Bronze Age settlement.
Carbon Date. 2800BC. Late Neolithic Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, id as Microtus arvalis, vole, LN81, FQ 83, from calcareous matrix at Links of Noltland [Map], Isle of Westray, Orkney isles, off Scotland. Subm J C Clutton-Brock & M J Armour-Chelu. Comment (subm): date is too early for this level; however, similar date from Knap of Howar (Papa Westray) shows that Neolithic people were present on the islands by this point, and this early date probably indicates some earlier activity recorded into a later level on site. As with OxA-1080, small animal remains possibly not very suitable for close sequence dating.
ID: 6692, C14 ID: OxA-1081 Date BP: 4800 +/- 1280, Start Date BP: , End BP:
OS Letter: HY, OS East: 428, OS North: 493
Archaeologist Name: D V Clarke et al
Reference Name: Archaeometry, 29, 1987, 301; Curr Archaeol, 6, 1978, 44-6
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Carbon Date. 2215BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, animal, id as Bos, from secondary plough soil immediately preceding main midden deposition in W midden area at Links of Noltland [Map], Westray, Orkney, Scotland. Coll D V Clarke.
ID: 3122, C14 ID: GU-1429 Date BP: 4215 +/- 65, Start Date BP: 4150, End BP: 4280
Abstract: Grooved Ware site
Archaeologist Name: D V Clarke
Reference Name: Discovery Excav Scotland', 1982, 25; Renfrew C, 'The Prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 265; Brit Archaeol Rep, 117, 1983
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Carbon Date. 2140BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, animal, id as Bos, from secondary plough soil immediately preceding main midden deposition in W midden area at Links of Noltland [Map], Westray, Orkney, Scotland. Coll D V Clarke.
ID: 3123, C14 ID: GU-1428 Date BP: 4140 +/- 65, Start Date BP: 4075, End BP: 4205
Abstract: Grooved Ware site
Archaeologist Name: D V Clarke
Reference Name: Discovery Excav Scotland', 1982, 25; Renfrew C, 'The Prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 265; Brit Archaeol Rep, 117, 1983
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Carbon Date. 1970BC. Middle Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, id as Lutra lutra, otter, LN81, HO 85, from within Neolithic house levels at Links of Noltland [Map], Isle of Westray, Orkney isles, off Scotland. Subm J C Clutton-Brock & M J Armour-Chelu. Comment (subm): date falls into middle of range for conventional radiocarbon dates obtained from this part of the site.
ID: 6693, C14 ID: OxA-1082 Date BP: 3970 +/- 80, Start Date BP: 3890, End BP: 4050
OS Letter: HY, OS East: 428, OS North: 493
Archaeologist Name: D V Clarke et al
Reference Name: Archaeometry, 29, 1987, 301; Curr Archaeol, 6, 1978, 44-6
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Carbon Date. 1950BC. Middle Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, animal, id as Bos, from midden around articulated deer skeletons in W Midden at Links of Noltland [Map], Westray, Orkney, Scotland. Coll D V Clarke.
ID: 3124, C14 ID: GU-1431 Date BP: 3950 +/- 65, Start Date BP: 3885, End BP: 4015
Abstract: Grooved Ware site
Archaeologist Name: D V Clarke
Reference Name: Discovery Excav Scotland', 1982, 25; Renfrew C, 'The Prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 265; Brit Archaeol Rep, 117, 1983
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Carbon Date. 1860BC. Middle Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, animal, id as Bos, from upper layer of midden deposition in W Midden area at Links of Noltland [Map], Westray, Orkney, Scotland. Coll D V Clarke.
ID: 3125, C14 ID: GU-1430 Date BP: 3860 +/- 60, Start Date BP: 3800, End BP: 3920
Abstract: Grooved Ware site
Archaeologist Name: D V Clarke
Reference Name: Discovery Excav Scotland', 1982, 25; Renfrew C, 'The Prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 265; Brit Archaeol Rep, 117, 1983
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Carbon Date. 1840BC. Middle Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, animal, id as Bos, Sus, ovicaprid and Cervus elaphus from midden material used to fill in the structure 'at Grobust' at Links of Noltland [Map], Westray, Orkney, Scotland. Coll D V Clarke.
ID: 3126, C14 ID: GU-1433 Date BP: 3840 +/- 60, Start Date BP: 3780, End BP: 3900
Abstract: Grooved Ware site
Archaeologist Name: D V Clarke
Reference Name: Discovery Excav Scotland', 1982, 25; Renfrew C, 'The Prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 265; Brit Archaeol Rep, 117, 1983
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Carbon Date. 1722BC. Middle Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, animal, id as Cervus elaphus from deer butchering site in windblown sand abutting well-preserved wall sealed by midden with Beaker pottery at Links of Noltland [Map], Westray, Orkney. Coll D V Clarke.
ID: 3127, C14 ID: GU-1432 Date BP: 3722 +/- 60, Start Date BP: 3662, End BP: 3782
Abstract: Grooved Ware site
Archaeologist Name: D V Clarke
Reference Name: Discovery Excav Scotland', 1982, 25; Renfrew C, 'The Prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 265; Brit Archaeol Rep, 117, 1983
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Carbon Date. 1590BC. Middle Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, id as Microtus arvalis, vole, LN80, FG 005, from calcareous matrix at Links of Noltland [Map], Isle of Westray, Orkney isles, off Scotland. Subm J C Clutton-Brock & M J Armour-Chelu. Comment (subm): date is about 200 years too late for this level; either ploughing had disturbed deposit or animal had burrowed. Date has confirmed Neolithic dating for voles. Small animal remains possibly not very suitable for close sequence dating.
ID: 6691, C14 ID: OxA-1080 Date BP: 3590 +/- 80, Start Date BP: 3510, End BP: 3670
OS Letter: HY, OS East: 428, OS North: 493
Archaeologist Name: D V Clarke et al
Reference Name: Archaeometry, 29, 1987, 301; Curr Archaeol, 6, 1978, 44-6
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Europe, British Isles, Scotland, Orkney Islands, Orkney Northern Islands, Westray, Lum Head Chambered Cairn [Map]
Lum Head Chambered Cairn is also in Orkney Cromarty Type Chambered Cairn.
Lum Head Chambered Cairn [Map] is an Orkney-Cromarty type round cairn, known as 'The Lum Head' at about 150' OD on the east edge of a shelf looking over the north part of the island and across to Papa Westray. The mound is 5' high, turf-covered, with fairly steeply rising sides. The actual edge is indefinite but the cairn appears to have had a diameter of about 45' E-W and 55' N-S. None of the core is exposed, but the crest appears to have been removed,for in the centre is a hollow in which are exposed the tops of four upright stones which apparently represent the divisional slabs of a stalled chamber.
Europe, British Isles, Scotland, Orkney Islands, Orkney Northern Islands, Papa Westray
Europe, British Isles, Scotland, Orkney Islands, Orkney Northern Islands, Papa Westray, Holm of Papa
Europe, British Isles, Scotland, Orkney Islands, Orkney Northern Islands, Holm of Papa Westray Chambered Cairn South [Map]
Holm of Papa Westray Chambered Cairn South is also in Orkney Chambered Cairns Unspecified Type.
3000BC. Holm of Papa Westray Chambered Cairn South [Map] has a number of unusual elements including the large central chamber and two 'double' side cells. It's also home to a diverse collection of Neolithic artwork. The tomb was excavated in 1849.
Archaeological Journal Volume 20 Section III. Having repeatedly and carefully examined the large Picts'-house on the Holm of Papa-Westrey [Map], which has been described by Captain Thomas, R.N., in the Archaeologia1, I discovered numerous incised marks on the walls: some of them are here figured. The markings a. (see woodcuts) occur with some others, very obscure in character, on the east side of the large chamber; those represented in the woodcut b. are on the lintel over the entrance to one of the cells. These resemble incised figures in the chambered cairns at Newgrange and Dowth in Ireland, on the rocks in Scania, and in chambered tombs at Carnac in Brittany.
Note 1. Archaeologia, vol. xxxiv., p. 127.
Europe, British Isles, Scotland, Orkney Islands, Orkney Northern Islands, Papa Westray, Knap of Howar [Map]
Knap of Howar is also in Orkney Neolithic Farmsteads.
Unstan Ware is finely decorated early Neolithic Pottery from the 4th Millenium BC and the 3rd Millenium BC; elegant shallow bowls with a groove-pattern around the rim, or undecorated round bottomed bowls. The name is from the Unstan Chambered Cairn [Map] where the pottery was first found in 1884. Unstan Ware is found in tombs: Midhowe Chambered Cairn [Map], Tomb of the Eagles [Map], Taversoe Tuick [Map] as well as farmsteads: Knap of Howar [Map].
Carbon Date. 3706BC. Early Neolithic Carbon Dates
Report: Animal bones, id as mixed, (collagen) from primary midden filling south wall-core of House 1, Period I at Knap of Howar [Map], Papa Westray, Orkney, Scotland. Coll A Ritchie. Comment (subm): sample re-run as SRR-452, neither seems reliable.
ID: 3068, C14 ID: SRR-347 Date BP: 5706 +/- 85, Start Date BP: 5621, End BP: 5791
OS Letter: HY, OS East: 483, OS North: 518
Archaeologist Name: A Ritchie
Reference Name: Proc Scot Antiq Scot, 113, 1983, 40-121; Renfrew C, 'The Prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 264
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3700BC to 2800BC. Knap of Howar [Map] is a Neolithic farmstead.
Carbon Date. 2830BC. Late Neolithic Carbon Dates
Report: Organic buried soil at base of test-pit 16 at Holland, near Knap of Howar [Map], Papa Westray, Orkney, Scotland. Coll A Ritchie.
ID: 2926, C14 ID: Birm-817 Date BP: 4830 +/- 100, Start Date BP: 4730, End BP: 4930
OS Letter: HY, OS East: 477, OS North: 112
Reference Name: Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 113, 1983, 40-121 esp 118
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Carbon Date. 2770BC. Late Neolithic Carbon Dates
Report: Animal bone, id as mixed (collagen), from primary midden, trench V, Period I at Knap of Howar [Map], Papa Westray, Orkney, Scotland. Coll A Ritchie. Comment (subm): predates houses 1 & 2.
ID: 3076, C14 ID: Birm-816 Date BP: 4770 +/- 180, Start Date BP: 4590, End BP: 4950
OS Letter: HY, OS East: 483, OS North: 518
Archaeologist Name: A Ritchie
Reference Name: Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 113, 1983, 40-121 esp 118; C Renfrew, 'The prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 264
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Carbon Date. 2765BC. Late Neolithic Carbon Dates
Report: Animal bone (collagen) from secondary midden, trench II, Period II at Knap of Howar [Map], Papa Westray, Orkney, Scotland. Coll A Ritchie.
ID: 3074, C14 ID: SRR-348 Date BP: 4765 +/- 70, Start Date BP: 4695, End BP: 4835
OS Letter: HY, OS East: 483, OS North: 518
Archaeologist Name: A Ritchie
Reference Name: Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 113, 1983, 40-121 esp 118; C Renfrew, 'The prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 264
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Carbon Date. 2690BC. Late Neolithic Carbon Dates
Report: Animal bone (collagen) from secondary floor deposit, house 2, Period II at Knap of Howar [Map], Papa Westray, Orkney, Scotland. Coll A Ritchie.
ID: 3071, C14 ID: Birm-814 Date BP: 4690 +/- 130, Start Date BP: 4560, End BP: 4820
OS Letter: HY, OS East: 483, OS North: 518
Archaeologist Name: A Ritchie
Reference Name: Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 113, 1983, 40-121 esp 118; C Renfrew, 'The prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 264
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Carbon Date. 2532BC. Late Neolithic Carbon Dates
Report: Animal bone (collagen), from secondary floor deposit in passage, house 1a, Pd II at Knap of Howar [Map], Papa Westray, Orkney, Scotland. Coll A Ritchie.
ID: 3070, C14 ID: SRR-346 Date BP: 4532 +/- 70, Start Date BP: 4462, End BP: 4602
OS Letter: HY, OS East: 483, OS North: 518
Archaeologist Name: A Ritchie
Reference Name: Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 113, 1983, 40-121 esp 118; C Renfrew, 'The prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 264
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Carbon Date. 2451BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Animal bone (collagen) from secondary midden, trench III, period II at Knap of Howar [Map], Papa Westray, Orkney, Scotland. Coll A Ritchie.
ID: 3073, C14 ID: SRR-344 Date BP: 4451 +/- 70, Start Date BP: 4381, End BP: 4521
OS Letter: HY, OS East: 483, OS North: 518
Archaeologist Name: A Ritchie
Reference Name: Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 113, 1983, 40-121 esp 118; C Renfrew, 'The prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 264
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Carbon Date. 2422BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Animal bone, id as mixed (collagen), from primary midden, trench II, Period I at Knap of Howar [Map], Papa Westray, Orkney, Scotland. Coll A Ritchie.
ID: 3075, C14 ID: SRR-349 Date BP: 4422 +/- 70, Start Date BP: 4352, End BP: 4492
OS Letter: HY, OS East: 483, OS North: 518
Archaeologist Name: A Ritchie
Reference Name: Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 113, 1983, 40-121 esp 118; C Renfrew, 'The prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 264
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Carbon Date. 2348BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Animal bone (collagen), from floor deposit of House 1, Period II at Knap of Howar [Map], Papa Westray, Orkney, Scotland. Coll A Ritchie.
ID: 3069, C14 ID: SRR-345 Date BP: 4348 +/- 75, Start Date BP: 4273, End BP: 4423
OS Letter: HY, OS East: 483, OS North: 518
Archaeologist Name: A Ritchie
Reference Name: Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 113, 1983, 40-121 esp 118; C Renfrew, 'The prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 264
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Carbon Date. 2270BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Animal bone, id as mixed (collagen), from primary midden in wall core, house 2, Period I at Knap of Howar [Map], Papa Westray, Orkney, Scotland. Coll A Ritchie.
ID: 3077, C14 ID: Birm-813 Date BP: 4270 +/- 100, Start Date BP: 4170, End BP: 4370
OS Letter: HY, OS East: 483, OS North: 518
Archaeologist Name: A Ritchie
Reference Name: Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 113, 1983, 40-121 esp 118; C Renfrew, 'The prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 264
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Carbon Date. 2250BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Animal bone (collagen) from primary midden, trench IV, Period I at Knap of Howar [Map], Papa Westray, Orkney, Scotland. Coll A Ritchie.
ID: 3072, C14 ID: Birm-815 Date BP: 4250 +/- 130, Start Date BP: 4120, End BP: 4380
OS Letter: HY, OS East: 483, OS North: 518
Archaeologist Name: A Ritchie
Reference Name: Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 113, 1983, 40-121 esp 118; C Renfrew, 'The prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 264
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Carbon Date. 2081BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Animal bone, id as mixed (collagen), from primary midden in south wall-core, house 1, Period I at Knap of Howar [Map], Papa Westray, Orkney, Scotland. Coll A Ritchie. Comment (subm): SRR-452 & SRR-347 taken from the same sample, ? unreliable.
ID: 3078, C14 ID: SRR-452 Date BP: 4081 +/- 65, Start Date BP: 4016, End BP: 4146
OS Letter: HY, OS East: 483, OS North: 518
Archaeologist Name: A Ritchie
Reference Name: Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 113, 1983, 40-121 esp 118; C Renfrew, 'The prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 264
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
Europe, British Isles, Scotland, Orkney Islands, Orkney Northern Islands, Westray, Pierowall Quarry Chambered Cairn [Map]
Pierowall Quarry Chambered Cairn is also in Orkney Chambered Cairns Unspecified Type.
Europe, British Isles, Scotland, Orkney Islands, Orkney Northern Islands, Westray, Pierowall Quarry Chambered Cairn Carbon Dates
Carbon Date. 2310BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, id as Martes martes, pine martin, PQ81, from lower levels of stone cairn at Pierowall Quarry, Westray, Orkney Isles, off Scotland. Subm J Clutton-Brock & M J Armour-Chelu. Comment (subm MJA-C): date slightly earlier than two conventional radiocarbon dates from site; excavator is satisfied that date is within use period of cairn. [Ed: NGR not given, estim from gazetteer.]
ID: 6689, C14 ID: OxA-1049 Date BP: 4310 +/- 80, Start Date BP: 4230, End BP: 4390
OS Letter: HY, OS East: 438, OS North: 488
Archaeologist Name: N Sharples
Reference Name: Archaeometry, 29, 1987, 300; Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 114, 1984.
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Creswell Crags
Derbyshire
England. Subm R M Jacobi. Comment (subm): OxA-1471
-1615 and -1937 are all for single bones of Bos primigenius; they are linked by a common preservation state and can
Carbon Date. 2140BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, id as Bos, from secondary occupation of structure beside ruined chambered tomb at Pierowall Quarry, Westray, Orkney, Scotland. [Ed: one text gives lab. no. incorrectly as GU-1383.]
ID: 3217, C14 ID: GU-1583 Date BP: 4140 +/- 60, Start Date BP: 4080, End BP: 4200
Abstract: Occupation beside ruined cairn
Archaeologist Name: N Sharples
Reference Name: Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 114, 1984, 75-125 esp 90; Renfrew C (ed), 'The prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 272
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Carbon Date. 2140BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, id as Bos, from material used in construction of structure beside ruined chambered tomb at Pierowall Quarry, Westray, Orkney, Scotland. [Ed: one text gives lab. no. incorrectly as GU-1382]
ID: 3216, C14 ID: GU-1582 Date BP: 4140 +/- 60, Start Date BP: 4080, End BP: 4200
Abstract: Occupation beside ruined cairn
Archaeologist Name: N Sharples
Reference Name: Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 114, 1984, 75-125 esp 90; Renfrew C (ed), 'The prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 272
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Carbon Date. 2030BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, id as Bos, from secondary occupation of structure beside ruined chambered tomb at Pierowall Quarry, Westray, Orkney, Scotland. [Ed: one text gives lab. no. incorrectly as GU-1384.]
ID: 3218, C14 ID: GU-1584 Date BP: 4030 +/- 65, Start Date BP: 3965, End BP: 4095
Abstract: Occupation beside ruined cairn
Archaeologist Name: N Sharples
Reference Name: Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 114, 1984, 75-125 esp 90; Renfrew C (ed), 'The prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 272
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Carbon Date. 510BC. Early Iron Age Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, id as Bos, from occupation layer immediately preceding construction of round house at Pierowall Quarry, Westray, Orkney, Scotland.
ID: 3214, C14 ID: GU-1580 Date BP: 2510 +/- 80, Start Date BP: 2430, End BP: 2590
OS Letter: HY, OS East: 438, OS North: 490
Archaeologist Name: N Sharples
Reference Name: Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 114, 1984, 75-125 esp 90; Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 121, 1991, 205; Renfrew C (ed), 'The prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 272
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Carbon Date. 425BC. Middle Iron Age Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, id as Bos, from occupation layer contemporary with use of round house at Pierowall Quarry, Westray, Orkney, Scotland.
ID: 3215, C14 ID: GU-1581 Date BP: 2425 +/- 60, Start Date BP: 2365, End BP: 2485
OS Letter: HY, OS East: 438, OS North: 490
Archaeologist Name: N Sharples
Reference Name: Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 114, 1984, 75-125 esp 90; Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 121, 1991, 205; Renfrew C (ed), 'The prehistory of Orkney', 1985, 272
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