Fragment of a bronze vessel

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This piece of thin bronze from a vessel was found at Adabrock on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides in a hoard of tools, weapons, vessel fragments and beads. It was probably made in an eastern Alpine workshop, between 950 and 750 BC.

The vessel originally had a distinctive cross-shaped handle attachment and is of a type of vessel known from the Eastern Alps to Scandinavia. This, however, is the only example of such a bowl in Scotland.

The Adabrock hoard demonstrates how widespread and complex were the links between the elite of Scotland and the outside world during the early first millennium BC. The objects were almost certainly deposited as gifts to the gods.

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• Online ID: 000-100-034-632-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  X.DQ 220
• Date: Between 950 and 750 BC
  
• Material: Bronze; thin; flat
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• What: Bronze / portion
  
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• Where: Scotland, Ross and Cromarty, Lewis, Adabrock
  
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• Description: Piece of thin flat bronze from Adabrock, Lewis
  
• References:
  • Coles, John M. Scottish late Bronze Age metalwork: typology, distributions and chronology. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 93 (1959-1960), pp 16-134, esp. pp 48-9, 127. 
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