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bead necklace, afterwards found in the southern chamber, had influ- 

 enced their opinions. It is, I believe, impossible to determine "with 

 certainty sex from teeth. But opinions formed by trained eyes from 

 the general look of the specimens are of some weight. 



Subsequently Colonel Coddington had a further search made of 

 both chambers. Additional teeth were obtained fi-om both sides. I 

 append a detailed report, kindly prepared for me by Dr. Brown and 

 Mr. Black, on all the specimens, including those first collected. I 

 should add that the teeth from the north chamber were stated to have 

 lain more or less towards the east end, and those from the south 

 chamber towards the west end. The teeth from each chamber were 

 kept carefully separate. It appears from the report on the teeth that 

 three individuals were interred in this double grave — two males in 

 the north chamber, and a female in south chamber. I thought at 

 first that it was possible to infer from the position of the teeth that 

 the bodies had been placed in opposite directions in the two chambers. 

 But inasmuch as two bodies were interred in the north chamber, and 

 the teeth which I obtained from that chamber on the occasion of my 

 visit, came from about the middle of the floor, I do not think the 

 evidence is sufficiently clear to pronounce upon. In the case of the 

 southern chamber, there is no reason to doubt that the head lay to the 

 west end. 



In the course of the search in the latter chamber, a number of jet 

 beads and a triangular jet pendant were found towards the west end. 

 They had no doubt been strung as a necklace ; though usually called 

 jet, the substance appears to be a flneligniterather than true jet. The 

 beads comprised 13 cylindrical beads from hali an inch to seven-eighths 

 in length, by about two-eighths in diameter ; they are slightly swelled 

 at the middle: 55 flat discoidal beads varying from something over an 

 eighth to nearly two-eighths of an inch in diameter, and from a sixteenth 

 to an eighth in thickness. The triangular pendant measures an inch and 

 a quarter along the base. It is pierced transversely near the base, so 

 that it hangs with the apex of the triangle down. A restoration of the 

 necklace is shown, figure 3. The beads and pendant are precisely 

 similar to jet beads and pendants found in England and Scotland. 



Although ornaments cannot be said to be common in Stone and 

 Bronze Age interments, when compared with the number of barrows 

 opened, numerous examples of jet or lignite rings, buttons, beads and 

 necklaces, the latter sometimes of elaborate design, have been found in 

 England and in Scotland. Such objects are occasionally associated 

 with bronze, and have been found with burnt as well as unburnt 



