Bracelet and ring

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This bronze penannular bracelet and ring were found in 1990 in a hoard of late Bronze Age material at St Andrews in Fife. The hoard contained over 200 tools, weapons and ornaments as well as seven amber beads and three cannel coal bangles. It was buried between 950 and 750 BC.

The ring preserves remains of string binding. The preservation of this organic material is exceptional, and one of the most interesting aspects of the hoard.

The hoard contained a large number of plain rings of various sizes. Some were bound together with string. The binding was either to keep the rings together or to form chains, or to link them together in what may originally have been more complex arrangements. Their precise function is unknown: such chains could have been worn around the body as belts or possibly as parts of horse gear.

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• Online ID: 000-180-000-838-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland Part 2
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  
• Date: Between 950 and 750 BC
  
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  • Cowie, Trevor, O'Connor, Brendan and Proudfoot, Edwina. A Late Bronze Age hoard from St Andrews, Fife, Scotland: a preliminary report. In: Chevillot, C. and Coffin, A (eds). Le Bronze Atlantique, Actes du premier colloque, Beynac 1990, Beynac, 1991, pp 49 
  • Gabra-Sanders, Thea. Textiles and fibres from the Late Bronze Age hoard from St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland - a preliminary reort. In: Jaacks and Tidow (ed.), Archäologische Textilfunde - Archaeological Textiles, Textilsymposium, Neumünster 1993. NESAT 5, Ne 
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