Summary

Needle-case made from a smooth cylinder of bone, from Vallay, North Uist, 200 BC - 1100 AD

Accession Number

X.GT 903

Other references

Original description

NORTH UIST. Needle-case made from a smooth cylinder of bone, 3.3" long, .3" diam. From Vallay, near Oransay.

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

Erskine Beveridge's Collections

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Not recorded

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Vallay, North Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1963

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Trustees of the Dunfermline Natural History Society

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

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