Find Spot record MHG28390 - Early Iron Age finds, Keiss Broch

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Grid reference Centred ND 3399 6100 (4m by 4m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet ND36SW
Old County CAITHNESS
Civil Parish WICK
Geographical Area CAITHNESS

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An amber bead, possibly associated with a bone pin with a square ornamented head, a rudely-shaped whorl of steatite, a cylindrical bead of black glass and a ring of jet, from a mound on Keiss Moor, is in the NMAS (Acc.no. FL13).
The bead is a medium-sized, flat, thin disk with rounded edges, circular in cross-section and rounded rectangular in longitudinal section. It measures 17mm in diameter and 8mm in thickness.
C Beck and S Shennan 1991

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  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Beck and Shennan, C and S. 1991. Amber in prehistoric Britain.

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Jul 7 2008 11:20AM

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