Object: Spacer-Plate Necklace

Date: Bronze Age

Description: Spacer-plate necklace made from Whitby jet with the addition of some lignite beads. It was found in one of 3 stone cists on the island of Inchmarnock. It had been buried with a young woman, who was given the title ‘Queen of the Inch’. The necklace was restrung by Dr Alison Sheridan who found that it had been made up from parts of at least four necklaces. The lower spacer plates had been re-bored to bring the number of strands up from eight to ten.  

Origin: The three cists discovered on Inchmarnock by Dan Boag in 1960, were excavated by Dorothy Marshall. The bones were re-excavated in 2006 and radiocarbon-dated to between 2140 BC and 1900 BC before being re-interred in the cist.

Object: Food Vessel

Date : Neolithic

Description: Food vessel made of a fairly hard grey fabric. It has a smoothed interior and six lugs which are functional for joining the base to the wall of the pot. The rim is bevelled and there are incised lines all over the pot which are more distinct above the lugs. The interior diameter is 10.5 cms. It was found upside down and intact in the axial chamber of Glenvoidean Neolithic Burial Cairn, Isle of Bute. Several other vessels were found in the same chamber. The pot has been dated to around 3000 BC

Origin: Glenvoidean Neolithic Cairn was excavated by Dorothy Marshall and Isabel Taylor in the 1960s. Glenvoidean lies 300m above sea level on Kilmichael farmland at the north end of Bute.