December Lecture: The Viking boat-burial at Kiloran Bay, Colonsay, and its international context
Uncover the secrets of a rare Viking ship burial unearthed 140 years ago on an island off the west coast of Scotland at the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland's December Lecture!
About December Lecture: The Viking boat-burial at Kiloran Bay, Colonsay, and its international context
In 1882, a high-status Viking burial was discovered at Kiloran Bay, Colonsay, which included scales, weights and harness-mounts, together with a boat, a horse, a possible human sacrifice, and two cross-marked stones.
Join us online or in person on 15 December 2022, as Professor James Graham-Campbell FSAScot, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Archaeology at University College London, explores this fascinating burial in relation to similar graves from Scandinavia, Britain and Iceland.
Lecturer Details:
James Graham-Campbell is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Archaeology at University College London and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of The Viking-Age Gold and Silver of Scotland (1995) and (with Colleen Batey) of Vikings in Scotland: An Archaeological Survey (1998). He delivered the Rhind Lectures for 1995/96 on ‘Death and Wealth in Viking Scotland’ and continues to research the pagan Norse graves of Scotland.
Image: Kiloran Bay / image credit: Julian Paren
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