An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . W cO •a lU Ito lU a o 3 o u cu o 248 PREHISTORIC ART which had formed a necklace.^ In a barrow at Lake inWiltshire, with several gold disks, was a magnificent AmberNecklace, composed of eight rectangular flattened plates ofgraduated size, and oval and spherical beads, nearly 200in number (Fig. 269). If the restoration of this necklace iscorrect, it must have measured 25 inches in length and 15inches across. The character of its workmanship may bejudged by the fact that each of the smaller plates, only \inch thick, is perforated by five circular
An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . W cO •a lU Ito lU a o 3 o u cu o 248 PREHISTORIC ART which had formed a necklace.^ In a barrow at Lake inWiltshire, with several gold disks, was a magnificent AmberNecklace, composed of eight rectangular flattened plates ofgraduated size, and oval and spherical beads, nearly 200in number (Fig. 269). If the restoration of this necklace iscorrect, it must have measured 25 inches in length and 15inches across. The character of its workmanship may bejudged by the fact that each of the smaller plates, only \inch thick, is perforated by five circular canals which arebored with great accuracy. In the four larger and more. ^^^^^ikm^UMi^^ Fig. 270.—Plates of amber necklace. Lake, Wilts. Showing the position ofthe perforations. (Two-thirds size.) central plates only the upper and lower perforations run rightthrough, whilst the eight which are intermediate go a littleway in and pass out again, each two adjoining perforationscommunicating right and left by a curvilinear canal (). This must have been an exceedingly delicate anddifficult piece of work, and Dr. Thurnam says that the clevermechanic who imitated these [ilates under his directions in The association of amber with gold in interments points to thehigh regard for it as an ornament at this period. SchHemann was struckwith the same fact at Mycenae, where he found many hundreds of amberbeads associated with the profusion of gold ornaments in the sepulchresof the acropolis [Mycf/uc, pp. 203, 245). AMBER AND JET IN THE BRONZE AGE 249 boxwood, found it impossible to copy the curvilinear canals,and he was unable to conceive by what means they were
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