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Title: An introduction to the study of prehistoric art
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Parkyn, Ernest Albert, b. 1857
Subjects: Art, Primitive
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) : Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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navia, and that it occa-sionally occurs on the east coast of Britain, that theBronze Age interments which, in this country, haveyielded Amber, are nearly all south of the Thames, andthese far away from the east coast, the majority of them,in fact, being in Wiltshire. This may be due to the ex-tensive excavation of the tumuli of that county carried outlong ago by Sir Colt Hoare, who found Amber associatedwith thirty-three interments, six of which were cremations.Some of these were probably of later date than the BronzeAge. Another singular fact about the Amber withthese interments is that it is always of the red variety.Several of the Wiltshire burials which contained gold beadsalso had amber ones. In the Gold Barrow at UptonLovel, Wiltshire, which we have seen contained severalarticles of gold, and from the richness of its contents is sup-posed to have been that of an important chieftain, werethirteen gold beads, and no less than looo beads of Amber AMBER AND JET IN THE BRONZE AGE 247
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W cO •a lU Ito lU a o 3 o u cu o 248 PREHISTORIC ART which had formed a necklace.^ In a barrow at Lake inWiltshire, with several gold disks, was a magnificent AmberNecklace, composed of eight rectangular flattened plates ofgraduated size, and oval and spherical beads, nearly 200in number (Fig. 269). If the restoration of this necklace iscorrect, it must have measured 25 inches in length and 15inches across. The character of its workmanship may bejudged by the fact that each of the smaller plates, only \inch thick, is perforated by five circular canals which arebored with great accuracy. In the four larger and more

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