Scar: A Viking Age Boat Burial in Orkney

by Olwyn Owen and Magnar Dalland

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The story of a remarkable Viking boat grave at Scar in Orkney, rescued by archaeologists in 1991, just before winter storms finally claimed it. The boat's wealthy cargo included three people: a man of about 20, a child of 10 or 11, and a woman astonishingly old for the time, probably in her 70s.
  • ISBN13 9781862320802
  • Publish Date 1 January 2001
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 20 December 2004
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Birlinn General
  • Imprint Tuckwell Press Ltd
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 180
  • Language English