faunal bone assemblage (bead)
Descriptions
A single bead found on a site with Bronze Age pottery and moulds for casting bronze swords and rapiers. The bead is made from serpentine, a type of rock found on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall. Exotic materials such as this were valued in the Bronze Age.
This object is not on display.
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