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© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Omeka ID 2586
Bóbila de Can Torrens. Sepulcre III.
Prehistory

necklace variscite bead

MAC BCN-016400, MAC BCN-016399

Object type
necklace
Production date
-4200 / -3200
Fabric
-
Museum
Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Culture
Prehistory
Discovery location
Bóbila de Can Torrens. Sepulcre III.
Materials
variscite
Township
Montornès del Valles (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Barcelona, Vallès Oriental)
Technique
handmade
Where is it?
Exposició permanent
Dimensions
480 x 11mm
Description
Necklace with variscite beads. They are barrel-shaped and three are discoidal, and were associated with a skeleton as grave goods. Variscite is a pale green mineral used during the Middle Neolithic to make various types of ornaments and whose origin is most likely the Gavà prehistoric mines which were worked for centuries. Can Torrents is a brickyard where three pit tombs were documented. The variscite necklace was acquired by the Museum of Archeology between 1940 and 1941 from an employee of the brickyard who found it.

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