Summary

Bronze penannular brooch, zoomorphic, found on foreshore at Rhodes Links, near North Berwick, East Lothian

Accession Number

X.FA 111

Other references

Original description

E.I.A. [Early Iron Age] Ornaments, etc. Bronze zoomorphic penannular brooch Fowler's type F; hoop 3.2" diam, pin now 3.2" long, its end missing. Found E of North Berwick, East Lothian. [name redacted] note, 5 January 2011 - PSAS 106 ((1974-5) gives more precise location details. The brooch was found in 1971 on the foreshore at Rhodes Links, east of North Berwick, in a rock pool below high tide mark at NT 5772 8562. It had presumably eroded from the cliffs behind the beach.

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

Mrs Munro

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Not recorded

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Rhodes Links, North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1973

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Agent

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