Summary: Clothes and Jewellery
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These Neolithic people probably still wore animal skins for much of the period. These skins would have been scraped and oiled in much the same way as the Mesolithic people had done. However, as the Neolithic period progressed, they developed skill in weaving sheep wool into a coarse cloth.
They wore necklaces and bracelets of beads, shells and animals’ teeth. Lignite or jet was used for bracelets. Some spectacular necklaces have been found such as one of 112 beads in a tomb at Creggandevesky in Co Tyrone. Serpentine, a green coloured stone, was also used.
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