Summary

Shell beads from Oronsay, 6000 - 3500 BC

Accession Number

X.1997.1114

Other references

None

Original description

[MOS List, II.3.2, Movement of People, Goods and Ideas, changed by AS on 1 July 1998]. Case Q01: Mesolithic movements. The seasonal round - evidence from Oronsay. Jewellery. [Part of] Shell beads, some found inside a larger shell, Cnoc Coig, Caisteal nan Gillean & Oronsay. [With HP 672]. 6000 - 3500 BC. PK note: Provisional 1997 register number allocated to MOS object. SD note, July 1999: Edited from SCRAN full data set.

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)

Oronsay, Argyll, Scotland, Northern Europe

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1997

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Not recorded

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Not recorded

Image

None