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an intelligent working-jeweller, he told me that he could not 
make out how they were fabricated, and that he never saw 
more admirable metal-work. I adduce these instances to 
show to what a refinement in goldsmiths' work these people 
had attained. These armlets are also frequently made of 
bronze, in some cases enamelled and set with vitrified pastes. 
Plating of one metal upon another was also done in the most 
skilful manner. I have seen gold plated upon bronze, and 
bronze upon iron. Finger rings of gold and bronze are 
sometimes found, and some rings which look more like nose 
rings than aught else, though they might of course have been 
placed in the ears. Necklaces are abundant, and have at 
times occurred round the neck of a skeleton. They are of 
various materials, gold, glass (often prettily streaked in 
different colours), clay, amber, most frequently perhaps of jet, 
or other inferior lignite. They occur in jet of more varied 
shape than in any other material; round, cylindrical, oblong, 
button-shaped, heart-shaped, and square, at times very inge- 
niously arranged ; and in some cases having a pattern upon 
them, made by very minute gold points inserted into the jet. 
And as there is nothing new under the sun, small objects, 
like the charms which youthful Britons sometimes hang to 
their watchguards, have been foimd. I possess a miniature 
jet axe, and another also has been found, and I have seen a 
toy bronze dagger, and a toy socketed celt : all of which are 
pierced for suspension. In one or two instances gold plates 
have been found upon the breast of a skeleton, and in one 
case a corselet, for such it appears to have been, enclosed the 
whole breast and shoulders ; it is of gold and entirely covered 
with a pattern of raised lines and circular dots of hammered- 
up work. Before leaving the subject of ornaments, I may 
here mention that many, if not all, "the pen-annular rings 
very possibly served the purpose of money as well as of 
decoration. Though a regular coinage, based upon a rude 
