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A Roman-period Cache of Charms in Aberdeenshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1967

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[1] Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., 36, 1901–2, 67582.Google Scholar

[2] ‘Folklore of Fossils’, antiquity, 1965, 10, 117.

[3] Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., 56, 1921–2, 253, fig. 36.Google Scholar

[4] Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., 88, 1954–6, 229.Google Scholar Previously thought to be Antrim bauxite; a further note on the material is in preparation.

[5] See [2], 119–20.

[6] Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., 97, 1963–4, 207 n.Google Scholar; ÓRíordáin, S. P. and Daniel, G., New Grange (1964), 41–2Google Scholar; the late Roman jewellery and gold coins may originally have been associated. Stuart Piggott has discussed Roman coin finds from English barrows in West Kennet Long Barrow (1962), 55.Google Scholar

[7] Evans, E. E., Lyles Hill (1953), 19 and 57.Google Scholar I owe this reference to Miss A. S. Henshall. The use of cairns as smithies, real and legendary, despite or possibly because of their original sanctity, is a further field for speculation.

[8] Scottish Charms and Amulets’, Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., 27, 1892–3, 433526.Google Scholar

[9] An Icelandic Viking, however, had in his grave 58 shining chalcedony pebbles as well as 26 glass beads and one of amber ( Islenzka Fornleifafelags Arbok, 1965, 48Google Scholar, fig. 26).