A traveller's end? - a reconsideration of a Viking Age burial at Carronbridge, Dumfriesshire

Shane McLeod

A traveller's end? - a reconsideration of a Viking Age burial at Carronbridge, Dumfriesshire

Institute for Northern Studies

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A collection of metalwork – a sword, penannular brooch, and sickle – was found close together in 1989 at Carronbridge in north-central Dumfriesshire and they are thought to have been deposited in the ninth or tenth centuries. In the published report it was suggested that they belonged to a ‘lone traveller’, and a later review of the burial concluded that it should be raised ‘to the category of pagan Norse burials marked as ‘uncertain’’.[1] Having reconsidered the evidence and viewed the location of the Carronbridge burial I suggest that it should be moved to the ‘certain’ category. A short review of the evidence for Scandinavians in Dumfriesshire is also given, including the circumstances that may have led to the burial. [1] Owen and Welander 1995, p. 768; Graham-Campbell 2001a, p. 18 for quote.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	13-20
Number of pages	8
Journal	Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society
Volume	88
Publication status	Published - 2014

Keywords

Viking Age
Viking History
burial
Archaeology

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A traveller's end? - a reconsideration of a Viking Age burial at Carronbridge, Dumfriesshire

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