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View full screenHandle of cetacean bone for a bronze mirror, a copy of a Lochlee bronze handle, from Bac Mhic Connain, North Uist, 0 - 200 AD
X.GNB 61
1st - 2nd century
Bone, cetacean; oval terminal ring, angular collar, triangular loop ending in a crossbar with protruding ends
Bac Mhic Connain, Vallay, North Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland, Northern Europe
Beveridge Collection
MacGregor, M., Early Celtic Art in North Britain: a study of decorative metalwork from the third century BC to the third century AD, Vol. 2, Leicester University Press, 1976
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