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Beads and arrowheads

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from Milngavie, New Kilpatrick, Dumbartonshire

Beads and arrowheads
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These burnt bone beads and flint arrowheads were deposited as grave goods in an urn at Milngavie at New Kilpatrick in Dumbartonshire. The urn was placed upside down and then covered with a mound, sometime between 2000 and 1500 BC.

Three of the arrowheads have barbs to help them stick in their targets and tangs to attach them to wooden arrow shafts. One arrowhead may be a roughout. The two segmented beads imitate more prestigious faience examples.

By around 1750 BC, in mainland Scotland, cremation had become the favoured funerary custom. Grave goods were rare, and generally modest. Sometimes they were kept separate from the pyre, but in other cases, as here, they were burnt with the body.

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