It's time for some links

[wellinghall]

What could possibly go wrong?: Giant flame-throwing spider erected in Bristol

3,500 year old urn found buried in the Peak District

Kullervo: Tolkien's fascination with Finland

What if Dungeons and Dragons hadn't taken off?

See where the Vikings travelled

Fragments on Elvish Reincarnation

Festival of the Horse and Boys’ Ploughing Match

The Ness of Brodgar

Comments

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

The report linked to refers to one other burial in "Trench J", which was also of a child, which makes me wonder if it was a place to bury children in particular, or maybe some subset of children - children conceived at crossroads or whatever. (Yes, I daresay there weren't crossroads - but handwave, handwave. :) )

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

There do seem to be very specific burial sites within the islands- it's why Rousay in known as 'the Egypt of the North' because there are just so many burial places.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeed; and there are so many burial sites on Rousay that it seems probable that people were brought from other islands to be buried there.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

That's my view.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Yes, there was one other skeleton found before. I like your idea of a particular subset of children being buried there.