Summary

Necklace of jet, with ninety-nine fusiform beads, four spacer plates, two end plates and a toggle, from a Bronze Age burial at Mount Stuart, Bute, 2050 - 1700 BC

Accession Number

X.EQ 101

Other references

Original description

COLLECTIONS FROM SEPULCHRAL DEPOSITS: Necklace of 7 plates and 99 beads of jet, from Mountstuart, Isle of Bute. [MoS description] Early People. Expressions of power. (7) Jet necklace, Mount Stuart. 2050 - 1700 BC. [Scran caption] This jet necklace was found in a cist burial at Mount Stuart on Bute in the Inner Hebrides. The wealthy woman was also buried with a pot containing an offering of food or drink, a small object of bronze and two pins, sometime between 2050 and 1700 BC. The necklace was made of at least 100 spindle-shaped beads (some now fragmentary), four trapezoidal spacer plates, two triangular end-plates, and a triangular toggle. Many of the beads are very worn, but the toggle is not. It was probably a replacement. Date: Between 2050 and 1700 BC. Material: Jet. Dimensions: Length of beads: 10-27 mm; maximum width of spacer-plates: 54 mm.

Associated person/people (e.g. excavator/former collection)

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Not recorded

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Buteshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1888

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Marquess of Bute

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

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