The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . xposed, in the mouth of which lay a number ofcircular perforated beads of black About the same periodanother urn was dug up in the parish of Ceres, Fifeshire, withinwhich a smaller one was inclosed, and in it, in addition to the inci-nerated remains, lay a small brass implement, probably a hair-pin,(described as resembling a shoemakers awl,) and a small black beadcut in diamond Various interesting personal ornaments obtained under similarcircumstances, are preserved in the Museum of the Scottish Anti-(juaries, and one set in p
The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . xposed, in the mouth of which lay a number ofcircular perforated beads of black About the same periodanother urn was dug up in the parish of Ceres, Fifeshire, withinwhich a smaller one was inclosed, and in it, in addition to the inci-nerated remains, lay a small brass implement, probably a hair-pin,(described as resembling a shoemakers awl,) and a small black beadcut in diamond Various interesting personal ornaments obtained under similarcircumstances, are preserved in the Museum of the Scottish Anti-(juaries, and one set in particular, found inclosed in an urn withina rude stone cist, on the demolition of a tumulus near the Old ?ilK•lair?^. .3::0. = Ibid. vol. .\vi. p. 4H± ^ Ibid. vol. v. p. «!)2. 29i TH?: AliCHAIC OR BKONZE FElJuD. House of Assynt, Ross-sliire, in 1824, very closely correspond in ap-pearance to the description of tlie Renfrewshire relics. They includea necklace of irregular oval jet beads, which appear to have been. JetNurklace, Eoseshii strung- together like a common modern string of beads, and are suffi-ciently rude to correspond wnth the works of a very primitive other ornaments which are represented here, about one-fourth thesize of the original, are curiously studded with gold spots, arranged inpatterns similar to those with which the rude pottery of the Britishtumuli are most frequently decorated, and the whole are perforatedwith holes, passing obliquely from the back through the edge, evidentlydesigned for attaching them to each other by means of threads.^Several other urns were discovered in a large cairn, a few milesdistant from the tumulus which contained these interesting and taste-ful relics of female adornment, as they are with great probability as-sumed to be ; though it is well known that the modes of personal de-coration whicli modern taste and refinement reserve for the fair sex arevery differently apportioned in ruder states of society. The comparativ
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