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Description: | An incomplete 'jet' bead of possible bronze age date. A broken fusiform bead, approximately half the original surviving. The bead is now 12.2mm in length and with a variable diameter at the widest part, from 12.1 - 12.4 mm. It is highly polished. The surviving end has a flat sub-circular face 6.5 mm in diameter, with a central perforation. This perforation tapers from 3.1 mm at the surviving end face, to 2.2mm at the break. It is not clear whether the perforation is expanding from a central minimum at or near the break, therefore it cannot be said with any confidence that the perforation was double-tapered, though this would certainly have been normal practise.
Fusiform jet and lignite beads are standard parts of both the spectacular spacer-plate necklaces which copy gold lunulae, and the disc & fusiform bead necklaces found in early Bronze Age female burials, especially in the North of Britain and Wales. A complete necklace from Poltalloch, Argylle has beads of very similar form. The East Kinwhirrie, Angus and the Pen y Bonc, Anglesey necklace also. A single fusiform jet bead (LANCUM-46FBD2) from Penrith, Cumbria was recorded here.
For a discussion of the jet and jet-like materials used in the Early Bronze Age of Scotland, see - Alison Sheridan & Mary Davis, 'Investigating jet and jet-like artefacts from prehistoric Scotland: the National Museums of Scotland Project' (2002) | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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