Summary

Jet spacer plate from a bracelet or child-sized necklace, from a cemetery at Barns Farm, Dalgety Bay, Fife

Accession Number

X.EQ 912

Other references

None

Original description

[MOS List, II.5.1, Death: object list by case, JAS 3.2.98. Case no.: V08 - Identity: part of community]. [One of] Grave goods from cemetery at Barns Farm: - from Cist 5: - [One of] 2 jet spacer plates. A.S. note, 22.1.99: spacer plates from bracelet or child-sized necklace. Trevor Cowie notes, 20 February 2014: Description after Watkins 1982: 12. Jet spacer-plate (FRN 113a; NMAS EQ 912; fig 18.113a) a rectangular spacer-plate of dense jet, 34 mm long, with slightly convex ends. It is perforated by four parallel, evenly spaced holes, whose ends exhibit the characteristic concave wear from tightly strung beads. For further discussion see Watkins 1982

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

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Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

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Method (e.g. excavation)

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Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Barns Farm, Dalgety Bay, Fife, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

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Acquisition

Acquisition date

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Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

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Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

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Image

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