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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
LevelFile
Ref NoMS 2629/2/4
TitleExcavation of long stalled cairn at Knowe of Ramsay, Rousay, Orkney
Date1935
Extent1 file
Description'Report on the Human Bones from Knowe of Ramsey, Rousay, Orkney, 1935' (manuscript).

Report: 'Note on specimens from Knowe of Ramsay' (manuscript).

Typescript letter from Graham Callander, National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, Edinburgh, regarding animal and human bones excavated from Rousay in 1935, 26 June 1935. States that the excavation was disappointing in terms of finds; that there were some animal bones, but very few human ones; that Low should retain the human bones in Aberdeen once having gone over them, but to send the animal bones on the Royal Scottish Museum [Edinburgh]. He is especially keen to know if the burnt bones are human; is disappointed that the finds were so few; the cairn contained 12 cells, but they only recovered a few small fragments of pottery and one flint scraper; Mr Grant may do a horned cairn this summer, which he hopes will prove more fruitful.

Programme for afternoon meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 11 May 1936, at which Graham Callander and Walter Grant were to deliver a communication on the long stalled cairn, Knowe of Ramsay, Rousay, Orkney.

Newspaper cutting from the 'Scotsman' reporting upon the Society of Antiquaries' meeting of 11 May 1936, 12 May 1936.
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