An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . licate 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
An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . licate 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 wereformed.^ One of the few instances of amber being found ina Bronze Age barrow north of the Thames was at Cress-ingham in Norfolk which, as we have seen, contained articlesof gold. With these was an amberneckiace included in whichwere six amber rings. But the rarest find of amber in Britainis a cttp, 2\ inches high, 3I- inches wide, and ^-^ inch thick,found in a barrow at Hove in Sussex (Fig. 271). It ac-. FiG. 271.—Amber cup and handle. Hove, Sussex. companied an interment in an oak coffin, and with it was abronze dagger nearly six inches long, and a double-edgedstone axe. This cup is well finished, is quite smooth insideand out, and the handle is engraved with fine lines alongthe edges. It seems to be unique among prehistoric articlesmade of amber, but resembles a wooden cup, in the shapeboth of the body and handle, discovered in the Guldhoi, RibeAmt, Denmark.^ The question arises whether these amberornaments were imported as such from Scandinavia, or ^ Archceoiogia, XLin., p. 505 «., Figs. 198, 199.^ Evans, Ancient Stone Implements of Great Britain, Fig. 367.^ A. P. Madsen, Fund af Egekester fra Bronzealdern i Danmark(1896), p. 76, Plate XIV, Kig. 3. 250 PREHISTORIC ART only the unworked amber obtained from the same source ;or on the other hand whether they were not made on thespot from pieces picked up on the east coast. Consider-
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