120 Amber and Jet in Ancient Burials. 



£very assurance that they are the very articles found at the 

 railway cutting. I have not any doubt that there were ten, 

 but they have got broken, except one or so.' The urns 

 had crumbled to pieces, and I gave the beads to the 

 Museum." 



There is the record of the finding by Mr Beckett, of 

 ■Stoneykirk, of a very beautiful Jet necklace in an urn in 

 which were i88 finely wrought perforated pieces of Lignite, 

 and Mr Ludovic M'L. Mann thinks without doubt the 

 lignitic beads were strung to form a necklace, and says the 

 pieces were intensely black and in perfect condition, all the 

 surfaces being beautifully smooth and possessing a subdued 

 silken lustre. 



The mention of the beautiful Jet cross recovered from 

 Lochrutton crannog when excavated by the Society must not 

 be omitted. It consists of a circular central disc, two- 

 eighths inch in diameter, with two arms, the other two arms 

 Toeing broken off and awanting. The disc is flat on each 

 face and rounded on the edge, and the arms have the corners 

 rounded off and terminate in flat triangular ends with a 

 moulding at base. When complete the cross would measure 

 i^ inches between the points of the transverse arms. On 

 the face of the cross the disc has been inlaid with a floriated 

 Greek Cross, and with small discs between the outer ter- 

 mination of the arms. The reverse is plain, except the disc 

 which bears the letters J. H. C, with a mark of contraction 

 ■over them. The form of the lettering on the cross suggests 

 an early 13th century date."^^ 



31 Ancient and Hist. Man. Com., Fifth Beport. Kirlrvd- 

 SrirjM. p. 177. 



