. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Fig. ?79. Yorkshire. them was a curious bone pendant of semicircular outline, widening outto a rectangular base somewhat like a modern seal. Jet beads, long and thin, but larger at the middle than at the extremi-ties, and others barrel-shaped, were found with burnt bones in abarrow examined by the Rev. G-reville^J. Chester, near Cromer; \ and amagnificent necklace of jet beads, ranging from 1 to 5 inches in length,some of them expanding very much in the middle, and with a sort ofrounded moulding at each end, and having a
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Fig. ?79. Yorkshire. them was a curious bone pendant of semicircular outline, widening outto a rectangular base somewhat like a modern seal. Jet beads, long and thin, but larger at the middle than at the extremi-ties, and others barrel-shaped, were found with burnt bones in abarrow examined by the Rev. G-reville^J. Chester, near Cromer; \ and amagnificent necklace of jet beads, ranging from 1 to 5 inches in length,some of them expanding very much in the middle, and with a sort ofrounded moulding at each end, and having a few rough beads of amber. Fig. 380. - Yorkshire. \ intermingled with them, were found with a polished celt of black flint atCruden,§ Aberdeenshire, in 1812, and are preserved in the ArbuthnotMuseum, Peterhead. Some curious jet beads, one of them in the form of a ring perforatedtransversely, wore found with bronze buttons, rings, armlets, &c, inAngiesea,|| and are now in the Brtish Museum. A flat circular bead of jet, a flint scraper, and a bronze dagger andcell were found by the late Mr. Bateman in a barrow near large pendant, apparently of jet, pear-shaped, and perforated near thesmaller end, was found in a barrow on Slanton Moor,** Derbyshire ; anda rudely made bead of Kimmeridge shale in the long-chambered barrow • * Vol. xxii. ],. 211. f Ten Years Dig., p. 74. Cran. Brit., vol. ii. pi. 60, p. 2. I Arch, .hnn-,,., vol. vii. p. 1!)(). § « Cat,. A. I. Mus. Ed., p. 10.|| Arch. Join//., vol. xxii. p. 71. Arch. Camb., 3rd S., vol. xii. p 97. II Arch. Jssi),-. vol. vii. p. 217. ** Arch
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