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From Adabrock, Lewis, Outer Hebrides

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These four beads, one of gold, two of amber, and half of a glass one, were found at Adabrock on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides in a hoard of tools, weapons, vessel fragments and beads. The hoard was buried between 950 and 750 BC.

The gold bead is a hollow, two-piece bead. The glass bead is made from blue glass. The amber beads came originally from Scandinavia, and the gold and glass beads might also have been imports, probably from Continental Europe, to Scotland.

Only the wealthy and high status people had access to gold and amber in Bronze Age Britain. Glass was also a very rare and exotic object at this time.

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