EARLY BRONZE-AGE LEAD - A UNIQUE NECKLACE FROM SOUTHEAST SCOTLAND

Authors
HUNTER F DAVIS M
Citation
F. Hunter et M. Davis, EARLY BRONZE-AGE LEAD - A UNIQUE NECKLACE FROM SOUTHEAST SCOTLAND, Antiquity, 68(261), 1994, pp. 824-830
Citations number
39
Categorie Soggetti
Archaeology,Archaeology
Journal title
Antiquity → ACNP
ISSN journal
0003598X
Volume
68
Issue
261
Year of publication
1994
Pages
824 - 830
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-598X(1994)68:261<824:EBL-AU>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
Excavation of an Early Bronze Age cist cemetery at West Water Reservoi r, Peeblesshire, has uncovered a unique two-strand necklace, with one string of cannel coal disc beads and another of lead beads, buried aro und the neck of a young child. This is the earliest evidence for the u se of metallic lead in Britain and Ireland.