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Early Bronze Age lead — a unique necklace from southeast Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Fraser Hunter  and
Mary Davis
Fraser Hunter
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, National Museums of Scotland, Queen Street, Edinburgh EH2 1JD, Scotland
Mary Davis
Affiliation:
Conservation & Analytical Research Section, National Museums of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF, Scotland
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Excavation of an Early Bronze Age cist cemetery at West Water Reservoir, Peeblesshire, has uncovered a unique two-strand necklace, with one string of cannel coal disc beads and another of lead beads, buried around the neck of a young child. This is the earliest evidence for the use of metallic lead in Britain and Ireland.

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Antiquity , Volume 68 , Issue 261 , December 1994 , pp. 824 - 830
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1994

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