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Two bronze bangles

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From Kinneff, Kincardineshire

Postcard of Two bronze bangles.
000-100-035-746-C
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Two bronze bangles

These bronze bangles were found together with a pot and fragments of other bronze 'rings' in a cist burial (a box-like stone grave) at Kinneff in Kincardineshire. The burial dates from between 2200 and 1800 BC.

The plain bangles are made from a solid round-sectioned bar of bronze bent into a butt joint so that the ends fitted together.

Bangles of this type appear in both hoards and graves in the Early Bronze Age. In many of the finds, including this one, they occur in pairs. The presence of the pair of bronze bangles in this grave indicates that it was a high status burial.


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Online ID: 000-100-035-746-C
Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
Project: 0098: National Museums Scotland
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Ref: National Museums Scotland  X.EQ 149
Date: Between 2200 and 1800 BC
Material: Bronze
Bronze
Dimensions: 3.00" D
3.00" D
What: Armlet
Armlet
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Where: Scotland, Kincardineshire, Kinneff and Catterline, Kinneff
Scotland, Kincardineshire, Kinneff and Catterline, Kinneff
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Description: Bronze armlet from Kinneff, Kincardineshire
Bronze armlet from Kinneff, Kincardineshire
References:
  • Clarke, D.V., Cowie, T.G., & Foxon, Andrew (eds). Symbols of power at the time of Stonehenge. Edinburgh: National Museums of Antiquities of Scotland, 1985, pp 154, 288. 
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