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These bronze bracelets were found in 1990 in a hoard of late Bronze Age material at St Andrews in Fife. The hoard contained over 200 tools, weapons and ornaments as well as seven amber beads and three cannel coal bangles. It was buried between 950 and 750 BC.

The four penannular bracelets have evenly expanded terminals. One is in two pieces. The hoard contained 22 complete penannular bracelets and fragments of many others.

The St Andrews hoard is unusual in the number of ornaments it contained. These include around 10 pins as well as 23 bracelets (and fragments of others), one ribbed ornament with ring-and-hook ends, 22 rings (and fragments of many others) and 12 smaller finger or hair-rings.

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• Online ID: 000-180-000-841-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland Part 2
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  
• Date: Between 950 and 750 BC
  
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  • Cowie, Trevor, O'Connor, Brendan and Proudfoot, Edwina. A Late Bronze Age hoard from St Andrews, Fife, Scotland: a preliminary report. In: Chevillot, C. and Coffin, A (eds). Le Bronze Atlantique, Actes du premier colloque, Beynac 1990, Beynac, 1991, pp 49 
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