Beads strung into a necklace
This necklace was found in a barrow burial. Most of the beads are made of shale but there is also one made from red clay and a section of fossil marine animal called a crinoid.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- A380
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- shaleceramiccrinoid
- Common Name
- beads strung into a necklace
- Simple Name
- bead
- Period Classification
- Early Bronze Age (2600-1600 BC)
