Three plain penannular bracelets were in the hoard of palstaves and socketed celts found at Wallington, Northumberland.
Several have been found in Scotland. Two such bracelets, the one slender and the other thick, were found at Achtertyre, Morayshire,[1477] in company with a socketed celt, a spear-head, Fig. 383, another spear-head, and some fragments of other bracelets and of tin. One of these is shown full-size in Fig. 472.
Fig. 472.—Achtertyre. 1/1
Another, 2½ inches in greatest diameter, slightly thickened at the extremities, was found in a peat moss at Conage, Banffshire.[1478]
Other penannular armlets, one of which is shown as Fig. 473, were found with socketed celts at Redhill, Premnay, Aberdeenshire,[1479] and are now in the Antiquarian Museum at Edinburgh; as is another found with burnt bones near Preston Tower, East Lothian.
Fig. 473.—Redhill. 1/1
This very simple penannular form of bracelet is found all over the world, and is indeed the form of necessity adopted wherever it became the fashion to wear thick metal wire round the arm. It was common among the ancient Assyrians, and several bronze bracelets of this form from Tel Sifr, in South Babylonia, are in the British Museum. The hammered copper bracelets of North America[1480] are usually penannular.