Kingscross Point Viking cremated ship burial (cairn) & fort, Isle of Arran, Scotland, UK, looking NE across the natural harbour of Lamlash Bay.
Kingscross Point Viking cremated ship burial & fort, Isle of Arran, Scotland, UK, looking NE across Lamlash Bay. The small cairn with projecting monolith was excavated 1908-9 by J A Balfour who found calcined human bones, pieces of whalebone decorated with concentric circles, pieces of iron including Viking boat rivets (clench nails), bronze fragments, two pieces of vitrified stone & a bronze coin: a styca of Wigmund, Archbishop of York AD831-854. Haakon of Norway's fleet lay in Lamlash Bay prior to his defeat at the Battle of Largs in 1263. The roughly circular dun, with an overall diameter of , is variously described as prehistoric, Iron Age, about 2,000 years old, Roman period, Early Christian, Dark Age or early medieval, built by Scots from northern Ireland or Vikings from Norway. In February 1307 Robert the Bruce is reputed to have sailed from Kingscross to the Ayrshire coast to begin his campaign to end the English occupation & take back the Scottish crown.
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Location: Kingscross Point Fort, Lamlash Bay, Isle of Arran, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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