NMS Archaeology Object 132063: X.EQ 603 - Bead / fragment


Description

Summary


Fragments of jet bead from Durie, Scoonie, Fife


Accession Number


X.EQ 603


Other references

None

Original description

GRAVES: Fragments of jet barrel bead, found in a cist at Durie,Scoonie, Fife. T. Cowie note, September 2006: Fusiform bead from the 1944 investigations. Supplementary information from Alison Sheridan (see Lewis and Terry 2003): This bead, which was already in fragments when it joined the National collections in the 1940s or ‘50s (Registration no NMS X.EQ 603), is 13mm long and of a slender fusiform shape. It is black, polished to a medium sheen, and has broken with the conchoidal fracture pattern that is characteristic of jet. To verify its material, the bead was compositionally analysed by Dr Kathy Eremin (NMS C and AR Department), using XRF. The results indicate a composition closely comparable with that of Whitby jet and suggest that the bead (or rather the necklace of which the bead had been a component) had originally been imported from Yorkshire (see Sheridan and Davis 2002 for other examples of Whitby jet objects found in Scotland). Dimensions: length: 13mm. Context: Cist L? – thought to be the cist excavated in 1944.

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)

Durie, Scoonie, Fife, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1950

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Not recorded

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

Image

None

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