From Monquhitter, Aberdeenshire
This piece of a glass bead was found at Monquhitter in Aberdeenshire in a hoard containing over 63 objects, mostly natural rocks or fossils, buried in a cairn sometime between 100 and 300 AD. They were all probably valued as amulets.
Portion of a small bead of variegated glass, from Monquhitter
The objects in the Monquhitter hoard were clearly carefully selected. Perhaps they were an offering to the spirits of the cairn, or perhaps merely buried there for safekeeping by someone who collected or dealt in charms.
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