Mirror or cosmetic palette

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This stone disc, used as a mirror or cosmetic palette, was found at Glen Muick in Aberdeenshire. It was used sometime between 300 BC and 400 AD.

The stone has been carefully scalloped into fifteen divisions.

Stone was not only used by early people as a building material or to make tools. Prestigious weapons such as maceheads, jewellery, cosmetic items such as this, and a range of everyday objects were also made from different types of stone.

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• Online ID: 000-100-033-267-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  X.AV 14
• Date: Between 300 BC and 400 AD
  
• Material: Micaceous stone, whitish; circular; the edge carefully scalloped in fifteen divisions
  Palette / mirror
  
• Dimensions: 3.75" D x 0.25" thick
  
• What: Palette / mirror
  
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• Where: Scotland, Aberdeenshire, Glen Muick
  
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• Description: Circular palette or mirror of whitish micaceous stone, the edge carefully scalloped in fifteen divisions, from Glen Muick, Aberdeenshire
  
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