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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.

Two of the penannular bracelets have expanded terminals. The metal is cracked and corroded.

During the Later Bronze Age, there seems to have been a fashion for penannular bracelets in gold and bronze throughout north-western Europe. Most of the varieties known from Scotland are represented in the St Andrews hoard, ranging from plain forms to examples with terminals turned outwards.

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• Online ID: 000-180-000-867-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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