Summary

Bangle of bronze, from Kinneff, Kincardineshire, 2200 - 1700 BC

Accession Number

X.EQ 149

Other references

Original description

COLLECTIONS FROM SEPULCHRAL DEPOSITS: Ring of bronze, 3" dia., from Kinneff, Kincardineshire. [MoS description] Early People. Moving around in their world. (10) Bronze bangle, Kinneff. 2200 - 1700 BC. [Scran caption - X.EQ 148-9] These bronze bangles were found together with a pot and fragments of other bronze 'rings' in a cist burial (a box-like stone grave) at Kinneff in Kincardineshire. The burial dates from between 2200 and 1800 BC. The plain bangles are made from a solid round-sectioned bar of bronze bent into a butt joint so that the ends fitted together. Bangles of this type appear in both hoards and graves in the Early Bronze Age. In many of the finds, including this one, they occur in pairs. The presence of the pair of bronze bangles in this grave indicates that it was a high status burial. Date: Between 2200 and 1800 BC. Material: Bronze. Dimensions: Diameter: 76 mm, 82 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)

Kinneff, Kinneff and Catterline, Kincardineshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1834

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Reverend Alan Stewart

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

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