Necklace

Description

Necklace of jet and cannel coal, with thirty seven disc beads, fifteen long barrel beads, and a rectangular toggle decoration, from a cist at Almondbank, near Perth, Perth and Kinross, Early Bronze Age, 2023 - 1704 BC

Museum reference

X.EQ 818

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Necklace

Date

2023 - 1704 BC

Materials

Jet, Cannel coal

Physical description

Jet; disc and long barrel beads; rectangular toggle decoration

Collection place(s)

Almondbank, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Associations

Excavator: Stewart, M.E.C., Dr, 1960 - 1976 (fl.)