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Early Bronze Age lead A unique necklace from southeast Scotland

By: Hunter, Fraser.
Contributor(s): Davis, Mary.
Subject(s): Archaeology-metallic lead | anitque-necklace | Bronze Age | metal working | metallic lead In: Antiquity 68(261)Summary: 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 erliest evidence for the use of metallic lead in Britain and Ireland.
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Journal Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya
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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 erliest evidence for the use of metallic lead in Britain and Ireland.

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