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Title: The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Evans, John, Sir, 1823-1908
Subjects: Stone age
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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thin laminaeof jet, fifty-four cylindrical beads, and eighteen conical studs and per-forated plates of jet and bone, some ornamented with punctured patterns. In another barrow, called Grind Low, at Over Haddon, ;; the ornaments * South Wilts, p. 203. f Vest. Ant. Derb., p. 89. Arch. Assoc. Journ., vol. ii. p. 234. % V. A. D., p. 92. A. A. J., vol. ii. p. 23..§ Ten Years Dig., p. 25. A. A. J., vol. vii. p. 216. ■«35, p. 2. ;; T. Y. D., p. 46. Cran. Brit., vol. ii. pi. 35, p. 3. Cran. Biit., vol. ii. pi. 412 PERSONAL ORNAMENTS, AMULETS, ETC. (CHAP. XXI. were seventy-three in number, of which twenty-six were cylindrical beads,thirty-nine conical studs of jet, pierced at the back by two holes meetingat an angle in the centre, and the remaining eight dividing plates orna-mented in front with a punctured chevron pattern superficially drilled.Of these, seven are of jet, laterally perforated with three holes; and theeighth of bone, ornamented in the same style, but with nine holes on one
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Li verse. Fig. 376. -Pen-y-Bonc. Obverse. side, diminishing to three on the other by being bored obliquely.Worked flint accompanied several of these Derbyshire interments. Theskeletons are all reported by Mr. Bateman to have been those of females,but possibly he may have erred in some instances. Jet ornaments of asimilar character havo been found in Yorkshire barrows, near Pickering1and Egton,+ with flint flakes ; and some from Soham Fen are in the * Ten Fears1 Dig., p. 228. t Arch. Assoc. Jown., vol. vi. p. 4; xx. p. 104. NECKLACES. 413 British Museum. A very fine set of beads of jet, or possibly cannel coal,found at Pen-y-Bonc, near Ty Mawr, Holyhead, has been engraved inthe Archccoloifical Journal* and is, through the kindness of the Hon.W. 0. Stanley, shown in Figs. 376 and 377. The flat beads were notengraved with any patterns. Armlets of bronze are said to have beenfound with them. In Scotland several necklaces of this class have beendiscovered, as, for instance, near Aberlemno,

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