Unpolished Amber Chips / Beads with Drilled Holes. Make Your Own Unique Amber Viking Jewellery With Our Raw Amber Chips. - All of our amber jewellery is handmade from solid pieces of genuine Baltic amber from Northern Europe.- Baltic amber is made from 44 million year old fossilised tree resin that is found on the Baltic sea coast.- It was often used by the Vikings for making Thor's hammers and other jewellery.- Amber was a valuable commodity and traded from the iron age onwards and was collected from the Baltic sea to be traded all over Europe by the Vikings.- Genuine raw amber chips, varying in size from 5-12mm (0.2 - 0.4 inch)Foraged by hand from the Baltic coast of Lithuania. - Hole size 1mm, so will need to be slotted on a fine thread. IT WILL NOT SLOT ONTO A 1MM LEATHER THONG- Now available in 4 package weights: - 100g (3.5oz) - approx. 240 - 300 pieces.- 50g (1.75oz) - approx 120 - 150 pieces.- 20g (0.7oz) - approx 50 - 65 pieces.- 10g (0.35oz) - approx 25 - 35 pieces. PLEASE NOTE THAT EVERY BEAD IS DIFFERENT IN SIZE & SHAPE, SO THE ABOVE ESTIMATES CAN BE DIFFERENT.
