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View full screenDecorated whalebone plaque from a grave mound at Kingscross Point, Arran, 850 - 900 AD
X.IL 353
Second half 9th century
Bone, cetacean; partly ornamented
Kingscross Point, Arran, Buteshire, Scotland, Northern Europe
Maldonado, A. 2021. Crucible of Nations: Scotland from Viking Age to Medieval Kingdom. Edinburgh: National Museums Scotland.
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