Summary

Toggle or bead of bone, found in an urn at Over Migvie, Kirriemuir, Angus, 2050 - 1500 BC

Accession Number

X.EQ 383

Other references

Original description

COLLECTIONS FROM SEPULCHRAL DEPOSITS: Bead found in urn from Over Migvie, Kirriemuir, Angus. Anon notes, Bone ornament or jug? [MoS description] Dead and sometimes buried. From inhumation to cremation. Burnt grave goods and fasteners. (21) Pins & toggles, Cairnpapple, Gourlaw, Woodhead, Kinneil Mill and Over Migvie. 2050 - 1500 BC.

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)

Over Migvie, Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1929

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Not recorded

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor
Donor

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