ORNAMENTS. 



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f:ame period as those of the wolds, ornaments have been dis- 

 covered made of g-old^ bronze, glass', ivory, amber ^ jet\ clay 



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Fig. 52. 1. 



Fig. 53. \. 



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

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



' Gold lias rarely l)ccn found in any part of Britain in connection with an inter- 

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

 records only six instances. A necklace of gold heads was met with in a harrow at 

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

 were discovered in a harrow, with amhcr heads and hronze daggei-s. Proc. of Soc. of 

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

 now in the Ih-itish Museum, is the most remarkahle discovery yet made of gold in a 

 British harrow. Archivol. xxvi. 422. Gold-headed hronze rivets had heen used to 

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

 in the ease of an interment at Kelleythorpc, near Driffield. Archa'ologia, vol. xxxiv. 

 ]). 254. A necklace of rather rudely -fashioned gold heads was found in a cairn on 

 Chesterhope Connnon, Northumherland. Archfpol. .Eliana, vol. i. p. 1. In a cist near 

 tin- Fochahers l^lihvay Station two gold ear-rings were associated with the interment. 

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

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

 U'ads. Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot. vol. iii. p. 195, pi. xxii. 



■-= Beads of glass, jjrincipally of a hluish-green colour, and of peculiar shape, heing 

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

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



^ 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- 

 jilate just above noticed ; Archa>ol. vol. xxvi. p. 422; Proc. Soc. of Ant. vol. iv. p. 132, 

 where an amber bead is figured : at Llanwyllog, Anglesea ; Archa^ol. 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 Impl. p. 413 et seqq. 



* Jet or other lignite, though found not unfi-equently in Scotland, the northern 

 counties of England, and Derbyshire, has not occui-red 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. 



■' At Kelleyth >rpc, near D.'ifiield, just beyond the limits of the wolds, the late Lord 



