personal ornament;
bead
- Museum number
- Palorn.901
- Description
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Bead made from antler, cut in a sub-rectangular form and perforated with a cylindrical hole just below the midpoint.
- Dimensions
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Length: 23 millimetres
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Weight: 1.60 grammes
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Thickness: 8 millimetres
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Width: 15 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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The caves and rockshelters of Grimaldi contain deposits dating between 36,000 and 9,000 years years ago. As this object is not provenanced to a particular site or context it is not possible to date more precisely than to the Upper Palaeolithic.
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Ice Age art
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1989
- Acquisition notes
- Given to Exeter Museum by a man who found it in his house in North Devon. Said to have been 'found with Upper Palaeolithic burials in a cave at Mentone in 1892'.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- Palorn.901
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1989.0503.32