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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 654975, member: 2844&quot;]It isn&#039;t called pebble agate, not in Britain anyway, and certainly not where I live.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> Maybe that is another US term?</p><p><br /></p><p>I never disputed the possibility of finding agates on Scottish beaches, btw. They even find garnets along the coast of Fife, Scotland, in a place erroneously named Ruby Bay.</p><p>You may have missed what I wrote before:</p><p><br /></p><p>Important agate quarries were just north of Ruby Bay, in volcanic country near Dundee.</p><p><br /></p><p>I probably didn&#039;t explain it well before, but a certain style of Scottish jewellery is called pebble jewellery because the stones were small pieces and not considered precious stones.</p><p>Agate etc jewellery has been made in Scotland for centuries, and in the early days the stones were found as pebbles in creek beds. Ever since then any smaller non-precious stone was considered a pebble, whether found in a creek or mined. A bigger piece was called a &#039;slab agate&#039;.</p><p>So in this case &#039;pebble&#039; is not another term for beach agate. It had lost its original meaning of creek found stones in the 19th century and became a new, more generic term. Even Scottish slab agate jewellery falls under the category pebble jewellery. What is in a name?</p><p>Scottish pebble jewellery was not just set with agates btw, other popular stones were jasper, malachite, bloodstone and &#039;cairngorm&#039;. They were all regarded as non-precious, and part of pebble jewellery.</p><p>And Scottish pebble jewellery is Scottish, not American.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>There were many agate mines in Scotland in the 19th century, the heyday of Scottish pebble jewellery. There was also a huge production of Scottish pebble jewellery. And what were the mined agates used for, if not for jewellery, etc?</p><p><br /></p><p>Scottish pebble &#039;luckenbooth&#039; brooch, small pieces of non-precious stones:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Fencrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcTIGNjQsmiMuEKpapSio5M4TNHWYYNN1OCcYmWlcfrR4fBiJcB58A&amp;sp=1b8987888c3f1ffc6bfc7df19f80ef9b&amp;anticache=195313" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Scottish slab agate brooch, one big piece:</p><p><img src="https://i1.wp.com/i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr223/opis1/013.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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