Summary

Glass bead, cylindrical, from the Rink, Selkirkshire

Accession Number

X.2009.12.254

Other references

Original description

Part of a collection of fieldwalking finds made by Walter Elliot. ARCH DB 2000/103. ARCH TTNC 2000/11. N.B. X.2009.12.254 (X.FJ 199) is not from Newstead (glass bead from Rink, Selkirk), nor is X.2009.12.278.1 (X.BMA 4569) a collection of flint tools and flakes from Kalemouth, Roxburghshire (NT 714 276). Trevor Cowie notes, 22 February 2011: X.2009.12.254 = X.FJ 199: Cylindrical glass bead made of a pale translucent blue rod wound into a nine-coil spiral; probably post-Medieval. L 19 mm, D 5.5 mm. From the Rink, Selkirkshire; originally from the Mason Collection; acquired as part of the Elliot Collection. Registered by FJH 22 February 2011.

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

Mason Collection
Elliot, J. Walter, 1967 - 2005 (fl.)

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Not recorded

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Rink, Galashiels, Selkirkshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

2009

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Elliot collection

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

Image

None