NMS Archaeology Object 132885: X.FC 262.25 - Lump / pumice
Description
Summary
Lump of pumice rubbed smooth from a leather worker's toolbox from Birsay, 8th - 10th century
Accession Number
X.FC 262.25
Other references
Not recorded | 1952.386.25 |
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Original description
PERSONAL ORNAMENTS, &c. Tool-box and its contents found in parish of Birsay, Evie, Orkney, in 1885. [FC 262.1-25] Lump of pumice rubbed smooth 2.5 x 2 x 1".
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)
Birsay, Evie and Rendall, Orkney, Scotland, Northern Europe
Acquisition
Acquisition date
1952
Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)
J. Henderson Bishop, F.S.A.Scot.
Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)
Donor
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