418 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CHAP. xi. 



The Emperor Nero, according to Solinus, 1 had no less 

 than 13,000 pounds weight brought to him at one time, 

 and in the year 1770, 65,760 pounds were collected in 

 Prussia. It is also cast up by the sea on the southern 

 and eastern shores of Scania. 



The western shores of Denmark are second only in 

 importance to this region, and more especially between 

 the gulf -of Nissum and the island of Fa' no. To this 

 probably Diodorus Siculus 2 refers when he speaks of the 

 island in the ocean on the shores of which amber is cast 

 up, and in which it is alone met with. It is found along 

 the coast as far to the south as the Zuyder Zee, and is 

 not unfrequently picked up in small quantities on the 

 eastern shores of Britain. In France it is met with in 

 the western shores, and in the Canton of Vallon, in the 

 Vivarais, in the Lower Rhone. This last deposit has 

 been shown by M. Marichaud 3 to have been known in 

 the Bronze age in the south of France, and it is probably 

 that mentioned by Strabo (iv. 6) under the name of 

 \iyyvpiov, because of its abundance in the country of the 

 Ligures. It is a clear bright red variety, contrasting 

 with the yellow amber imported from the north. It 

 occurs in Spain in the Asturias ; in Italy it is recorded 

 by Prof. Capellini 4 from Lombardy and the district 

 round Bologna ; and in Sicily from Catania and several 

 other localities. According to Mr. Franks, 5 the dark red 



1 Julius Solinus, Edit. Mommsen, p. 110. 2 v. 23. 



3 Matiriaux, 1876, p. 541. It seems to me that the clear red colour of 

 the amber described by M. Marichaud, coupled with the passage of Strabo f 

 "7rAeovaei TO Xiyyvpiov Trap' avTOis (rots Aiyvo~iv) o rives TJXtKTpov 

 Trpoo~ayopvovo-i," settles the exact meaning of the term Xiyyvpiov to be 

 a red variety of amber, differing from the yellow or the tfXeKTpov. 



4 Congr. Int. ArcMol. Prdhist., Stockholm, ii. p. 777 et seq. 



6 Franks, Congr. Int. Archeol. PrJhist., Buda-Pesth, 1876, 433. 



