Ring carved from shale

code: LVSAV1985.052

Collection code:

LVSAV1985.052

File type:

Museum objects

Collection:

Museum Collection

Topics:

Shale Carvings

Description

Finger ring carved from Dunnet shale seam in Breich Pit 1944/5.

Good quality oil shale was glossy, black and the consistency of hard leather. It could easily be carved with a knife and shale workers sometime made novelties from it in their spare time

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