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Lot 2Jewellery may be made from a wide range of materials.

Jewellery is one of the oldest types of archaeological artefact

Closed30 June 2025

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GBP 6,000–7,000

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Jewellery is one of the oldest types of archaeological artefact
– with 100,000-year-old beads made from Nassarius shells thought to be the oldest known jewellery.[1] The basic forms of jewellery vary between cultures but are often extremely long-lived; in

jewellery listed above have persisted since ancient times,