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The site at The Crook Beach on Sanday, Orkney, was first noticed in 1985 by local farmer John Dearness, who found bones and a small lead object. The burial was formally identified and excavated in November and December 1991 after Orkney County archaeologist Julie Gibson recognised the lead object as a Viking bullion weight.
The burial contained three individuals: a man aged about 30, a woman aged about 70, and a child of unknown sex aged about 10 or 11. They were interred together inside a walled enclosure within the boat, along with numerous grave goods.
The Scar boat burial dates to between 875 and 950 AD, placing it within the period of Viking activity and Norse settlement in the northern islands of Scotland.
The Scar Dragon Plaque is a whalebone plaque found beside the elderly woman in the Scar boat burial on Sanday, Orkney. It is among the most notable artefacts from the site and was loaned briefly to the Jorvik Viking Centre in York in 2010.
Sand recovered from inside the boat lining did not match sand from Orkney, Shetland, or the Scottish mainland. This suggests the boat was not built in Scotland and that its occupants may have come from Norway or elsewhere outside Scotland.
Grave goods next to the man included a sword, a quiver with arrows, a bone comb, and gaming pieces. Items found with the woman included a whalebone plaque known as the Scar Dragon Plaque, a gilded brooch, a comb, shears, a sickle, and two spindle whorls.