Hello Everyone,
I have a sample of limpet (Patella vulgata) that was retrieved from a
Pictish/Norse or Late Norse burial in Shetland (Scotland). The shell was inside
the mouth of a child skeleton. Does anyone know of other examples?
The only other such example I know of is from the Isle of May site in Fife,
Scotland. Where a St James' Shell (Pectem maximus), was found inside the mouth
of a skeleton dated to 1305 to 1414 AD (by which time this shell was a
recognised emblem of the cult of St. James related to Santiago de Compostela
pilgrimage).
Many thanks
Ruby
Dr Ruby Ceron-Carrasco
Archaeology
School of Arts, Culture & the Environment.
The University of Edinburgh
Old High School
Edinburgh EH1 1LT
Scotland
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