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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
This flat piece of animal bone has five neat semi-circles cut into one side and signs of one more circle cut into the end. This bone is probably an offcut from a craftsperson cutting out full circles for making bone beads.
Beads made at St Patrick's chapel could have been for making decorative necklaces or rosaries. These bead making offcuts are found widely in late medieval and later contexts (MacGregor 1985, 101-102; Egan and Pritchard 2002, 311). Similarly sized offcuts from panels from late thirteenth nad fourteenth-century deposits in London were for bead making (ibid, 311, fig.207).
Canoloesol, asgwrn gwastraff gweithio i wneud gleiniau.
Site Name: St. Patrick's Chapel, Whitesands Bay
Notes: Excavations were conducted in May 2014 and May 2015
