Summary

Annular bead of dark blue, translucent glass with slightly flattened upper and lower surfaces, found during excavations of a dun on Eilean Righ, Loch Craignish, Kilmartin, Iron Age

Accession Number

X.HH 939

Other references

None

Original description

Glass bead. Form: Bead; annular; slightly flattened upper and lower surfaces. Material: Glass; dark blue; translucent. Condition: Good. Dimensions: 6.5mm diameter. Provenance: Argyll, Kilmartin Parish, Eilean Righ. From the donor's excavation of a dun on Eilean Righ, Loch Craignish. Nat. Grid: NM 8039 0219. Site type: Dun. Period: Iron Age / Early Historic. Date: 600 - 900 AD. Bibliography: A Dun on Eilean Righ, Loch Craignish, Argyll, Glasgow Archaeol J. forthcoming, cat no 2. F Ack 1983/61. Note the following were discarded by TGC 20/9/1989 three fragments of heat-damaged pebbles/stones; part of an elongated pebble of fine grained stone, broken by heat damage, probably retained as being possible whetstone? but lacking any signs of use (unless it was at the other end

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)

Eilean Righ, Loch Craignish, Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland, Northern Europe

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1983-11-16

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Not recorded

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

Image

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