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The grooved spindle-shaped piece was foiiiid with a portion 

 of a whorl of an ammonite, accompanying the remains of 

 a youth. Probably both were deposited as charms. 



The two pierced and ornamented rings are amongst the 

 rarest and most skilfully made articles of jet found with British 

 interments. 



In addition to tliese jet articles there were also found accom- 

 panying interments a long oval button of amber and the greater 

 portion of a hard wood button, both pierced in a similar manner 

 to the jet ones. 



All the above-mentioned specimens will be figured and fully 

 described in my book now in the press,'"" a specimen illustration 

 from which (Plate IV.) has been kindly lent by the publishers, 

 Messrs. A. Brown & Sons. And it is to be hoped that these 

 specimens, when no longer in my custody, will not be allowed 

 to leave their native home, the East Riding. 



Fig. 4. -Jet Link, or ' Slider,' 

 from Aldro. 



Fig. 5.— Jet Button or Stud, 

 from Bishop Wilton. 



Besides those found in the graves I possess jet beads which 

 have been found on the surface of the land at various times, but 

 it is uncertain to what period they belong. 



The Rev. Canon Green well, F.R.S. , F.S.A., has also pro- 

 cured several examples from the barrows on the Wolds, adjoin- 

 ing my field of research. According to the particulars in his 

 valuable book, ' British Barrows,' 16 interments have produced 

 26 jet articles, comprising 3 necklaces, 2 single beads, 12 pierced 

 buttons, 6 rough pendants, and 2 pierced circular rings. 



All these articles were found with inhumed interments except 

 in three instances where they accompanied cremated bones. 



In addition to these 26 articles Canon Greenwell, during 

 excavations made since the publication of ' British Barrows,' 

 found three or four more jet articles, bringing up the number to 

 probably 30 specimens.! In the Canon's researches, as in mine. 



* Forty Years' Researches in British and Saxon Burial Mounds of East 

 Yorkshire, with over 1,000 illustrations. 



t See Archseolojjia, Vol. LII. A very larg-e jet link was found a short 

 while ago in the ' Maiden's Grave ' near Arg-am. 

 1903 June :. 



