NMS Archaeology Object 133365: X.FJ 81 - Bead


Description

Summary


Dark blue enamelled bead with pale turquoise band and three bosses vertically striped with white, red and blue, from a cairn at Kirkchrist, Wigtownshire


Accession Number


X.FJ 81


Other references

Not recorded1899 p. 140

Original description

BEADS, RINGS, &C. OF GLASS. Enamelled bead, dark blue with pale turquoise band and 3 bosses vertically striped with white, red and blue, from a cairn at Kirkchrist, Wigtownshire.

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)

Kirkchrist, Wigtownshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1899

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Maxwell, Herbert Eustace, Sir, 7th Baronet of Monreith, 1845 - 1937

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

Image

Image of Dark blue enamelled bead with pale turquoise band and three bosses vertically striped with white, red and blue, from a cairn at Kirkchrist, Wigtownshire © National Museums Scotland
Image of Dark blue enamelled bead with pale turquoise band and three bosses vertically striped with white, red and blue, from a cairn at Kirkchrist, Wigtownshire © National Museums Scotland

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