Bead
This Neolithic bead comes from the site of Hembury in Devon. It has had two holes drilled through it to allow it to be strung as a necklace or bracelet. Beads are a common Neolithic artefact and could be made from stone, bones or even teeth.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 129/1933/B3
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Liddell, Dorothy M
- Material
- shale, Kimmeridge
- Common Name
- bead
- Simple Name
- bead
- Period Classification
- Neolithic (4000-2200 BC)
