Context (CMS Context)
With note saying ' Such rings were said to have been found in cist graves in the hills above the sound some 30 years before, as I was told by an intelligent native etc.' Collected by: Mowatt.Harry
Event Date 11/7/1991
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Serpentine ring or bead.
Event Date 11/7/1991
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Accession register notes: 'Bought at Balta Sound, Unst, June 1912'.
Event Date 1/7/2015
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (CMS Context)
Ridgeway notes in his publication (see Bib) that: 'Ring-beads similar to [this] were said to have been found in cist-graves at Baltasound about thirty years ago. The specimen figured, which I procured on the spot in 1911, was said to be one of these. There is a deposit of serpentine at Baltasound from which the material for the serpentine columns in the Town Hall, Lerwick, was obtained' (p. 651).
Event Date 17/7/2015
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (CMS Context)
(Bib): Ridgeway, W. 1931. The Early Age of Greece, Volume II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 651, Fig. 110a
Event Date 17/7/2015
Author: Imogen Gunn