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Summary: 1 shell bead, part of a necklace made of shale, bone, ivory, tooth and shell, from West Kennet Long Barrow, Avebury, Wiltshire, excavated by Professor Stuart Piggott and his staff and students at the Department of Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, 1955-56.

Research results

Beyond Symbols of Power: an integrated multi-scalar study of the life histories of Middle Neolithic elaborate objects. Jake Rowland PhD. Southampton University, June 2024. The use wear analysis results of the West Kennet Long Barrow beads can be found in chapter 4, Ogbourne St. Andrew arrowhead is in chapter 5, Millbarrow knife is in chapter 6, West Kennet Long Barrow boar tusk is in chapter 9. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5706-4537

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