Drimore
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 140 objects from the excavation site of Drimore, South Uist, in the Western Isles. These date from between AD 800 and 1000. This collection relates to the occupation and abandonment of a Viking period structure, and is one the earliest excavated Viking settlement sites in Scotland. The objects were discovered within a limited excavation area, encompassing the interior of the building and a narrow strip along the exterior of the walls. The collection contains bone pins, a bone awl, a bone fish gorge, a horse-tooth gaming piece, a fragment of a decorated silver plate of possible Pictish origin, and a single-sided composite antler comb. It also includes several different whalebone and antler tools and other items, and worked fragments of whale bone and antler tines, steatite spindle whorls, sherds of steatite vessels, faunal remains including cattle and fish bone and corroded iron objects and pottery sherds.
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