NMS Archaeology Object 167492: X.IL 155 - Bead / needle case / ferrule


Description

Summary


One of a collection of eleven beads of enamelled glass, four ornamented with coloured patterns, a needle-case and a ferrule of bone, from a Viking burial at Ballinaby, Islay


Accession Number


X.IL 155


Other references

Not recorded1878

Original description

VIKING PERIOD. [Part of a collection of] Eleven beads of enamelled glass, 4 ornamented with coloured patterns, also needle-case & ferrule of bone. No. II, Ballinaby, Islay.

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)

Ballinaby, Islay, Argyll, Scotland, Northern Europe

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1878

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

William Campbell

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

Image

Image of One of a collection of eleven beads of enamelled glass, four ornamented with coloured patterns, a needle-case and a ferrule of bone, from a Viking burial at Ballinaby, Islay © National Museums Scotland
Image of One of a collection of eleven beads of enamelled glass, four ornamented with coloured patterns, a needle-case and a ferrule of bone, from a Viking burial at Ballinaby, Islay © National Museums Scotland

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