204 Mortimer : Jet Ornaments from East Yorkshire. 



the necklaces and beads were found with female remains, while 

 the buttons and rings accompanied the bodies of males. 



In the Lake Dwelling-s at Ulrome Mr. T. Boynton, F.S.A., 

 found two portions of jet armlets. The same gentleman gave 

 some jet studs, etc., to the British Museum, which had been 

 found in a barrow at Fylingdale. 



Besides the discoveries already mentioned an unknown 

 number of jet articles was exhumed during the excavations 

 made in the East Riding from 1849 to 1853 by the late Lord 

 Londesborough, and by the late James Silburn, of Pocklington. 

 These probably number a dozen or so. 



In addition to the jet objects, the late Lord Londesborough 

 in 1851 found in a stone cist at Kelleythorpe, near Driffield, 

 accompanying a body, three amber buttons, a drinking cup, 

 a bronze dagger, part of the head of a hawk, and a stone wrist- 

 guard to which were attached four bronze rivets with gold 

 heads. This is the only instance I remember of gold having 

 been found with interments of the Bronze Age in East Yorkshire. 



The records of amber buttons or ornaments of the Bronze 

 Period have been nothing like so frequent as those of jet. As 

 far as I know the three amber buttons found near Driffield, 

 a piece of amber found by the late James Silburn in a barrow 

 on Huggate Pasture,"" and an amber button which I found with 

 a body on Acklam Wold are all that have been obtained 

 belonging to this early period in East Yorkshire. 



A large amber ring was found with an interment at Arras, 

 near Market Weighton, by the late Rev. W. Stillingfleet, in 

 i8i8, but being accompanied with iron articles it would belong 

 to a much later period (the Early Iron Age). Still later — during 

 Anglo-Saxon times — amber was largely used in the construction 

 of necklaces, while the use of jet seems to have been almost 

 wholly discontinued. 



Taking together the authentic instances mentioned, there 

 have been no fewer than 77 jet articles found with Early British 

 interments in the East Riding, and I do not think that any other 

 part of England of the same area has produced so many. Of 

 this number 37 are in my collection, and the remaining 40 have 

 been dispersed, never, I fear, to return to this district. It is 

 probable that a few other jet objects belonging to the Bronze 

 Period may have been found in East Yorkshire of which I am 

 unaware. 



^ Crania Britannica, pag^e 82. 



Naturalist, 



