ORNAMENTS. 



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same period as those of the wolds, ornaments have been dis- 

 covered made of gold 1 , bronze, glass 2 , ivory, amber 3 , jet 4 , clay 



Fig. 52. i. Fig. 53. f 



[fig. 52], and bone [fig. 53]. In the barrows of the wolds 

 neither gold, glass, ivory, nor amber 5 has been found, so far as I 



1 Gold has rarely been found in any part of Britain in connection with an inter- 

 ment. In Wiltshire, where it has occurred most abundantly, Sir R. Colt Hoare 

 records only six instances. A necklace of gold beads was met with in a barrow at 

 Bircham, Norfolk ; and at Cressingham, in the same county, several articles of gold 

 were discovered in a barrow, with amber beads and bronze daggers. Proc. of Soc. of 

 Ant., Second Series, vol. iv. p. 456. At Mold, in Flintshire, the breastplate (if such it is), 

 now in the British Museum, is the most remarkable discovery yet made of gold in a 

 British barrow. Archaeol. xxvi. 422. Gold-headed bronze rivets had been used to 

 fasten the stone plate of a wrist-guard to the material on which it had been fixed, 

 in the case of an interment at Kelleythorpe, near Driffield. Archaeologia, vol. xxxiv. 

 p. 254. A necklace of rather rudely-fashioned gold beads was found in a cairn on 

 Chesterhope Common, Northumberland. Archaeol. Juliana, vol. i. p. 1. In a cist near 

 the Fochabers Railway Station two gold ear-rings were associated with the interment. 

 Proc. Soc. of Ant. of Scotland, vol. viii. p. 28. At Huntiscarth, Orkney, in a cist 

 under a barrow, four ornamented disks of gold were found with a necklace of amber 

 beads. Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot. vol. iii. p. 195, pi. xxii. 



2 Beads of glass, principally of a bluish -green colour, and of peculiar shape, being 

 like three or more beads joined together, have been discovered in several barrows in 

 Wiltshire, associated with burnt bodies ; they have also been found in Dorsetshire. 



3 Amber has been found in barrows, of the same time as those of the wolds, in 

 Wiltshire ; see Hoare, Ancient Wilts, passim : at Cressingham, in Norfolk ; Proc. 

 Soc. of Ant., Second Series, vol. iv. p. 456 : at Mold, Flintshire, with the gold breast- 

 plate just above noticed ; Archaeol. vol. xxvi. p. 422; Proc. Soc. of Ant. vol. iv. p. 132, 

 where an amber bead is figured: at Llanwyllog, Anglesea; Archaeol. Cambr., Third 

 Series, vol. xii. p. 110 : and at Huntiscarth, Orkney ; Proc. Soc. of Ant. of Scotland, 

 vol. iii. pp. 183, 195, pi. xxii. See also Evans, Stone Iinpl. p. 413 et seqq. 



4 Jet or other lignite, though found not unf requently in Scotland, the northern 

 counties of England, and Derbyshire, has not occurred to the same extent in the 

 Wiltshire barrows. The very pretty form of necklace, consisting principally of 

 oblong pieces (generally engraved with dotted patterns) alternating with long cylin- 

 drical beads, which usually is made of jet, or of jet and bone, has in Wiltshire been 

 found formed of amber. 



5 At Kelleytlnrpe, near D/.fficld, just beyond the limits of the wolds, the late Lord 



