The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . nt indication of the great value attached to of amber, stone, clay, and porcelain, as well as of horn andbone, are all more or less common among the early sepulchral de-posits, and may be regarded with little hesitation as of nativeworkmanship. Amber, though not indigenous to this country, isof sufficiently frequent occurrence to abundantly account for its usein the manufacture of personal ornaments, without assuming its im-portation from the Baltic, where it most largely abounds. BothBoece^ and Camden notice the finding of pieces o
The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . nt indication of the great value attached to of amber, stone, clay, and porcelain, as well as of horn andbone, are all more or less common among the early sepulchral de-posits, and may be regarded with little hesitation as of nativeworkmanship. Amber, though not indigenous to this country, isof sufficiently frequent occurrence to abundantly account for its usein the manufacture of personal ornaments, without assuming its im-portation from the Baltic, where it most largely abounds. BothBoece^ and Camden notice the finding of pieces of extraordinary Boece gives the following quaint de- tbir ills growis ane maner of electuar and scription of amber, aflFording evidence of goura, liewit lllio gold, and sa attractive of the mode of its introduction, though suffi- nature, that it drawis stra, flox, or hemmis ciently extravagant in the style of its theor- of claithis to it, in the samiii maner as dois izing :— Amang the rochis and craggis of ane adamont stane. This goume is general. PERSONAL OUNAMENTS. size at Buchanncss, on the coast of Aberdeenshire. The clergymanof the parish of Peterhead, in the same county, in drawing up an ac-count of his parish for Sir John Sinclair, mentions having in his pos-session a pretty large piece of amber, recently found on the sea-beach near the manse ; and in 1783, Mr. George Paton presented tothe Society of Antiquaries of Scotland two pieces found on the sea-shore in the Frith of Forth, near Queensferry. The fact, indeed, ofamber being obtained in the greatest quantities on the southerncoasts of the Baltic Sea, is abundantly sufficient to account for itsalso frequently occurring in smaller quantities on the east coast ofScotland. It appears accordingly to have formed one of the mostfavourite articles for adorning and setting brooches, hair-pins, andother personal ornaments, from the earliest practice of the jewellersart, until our native tastes and customs were merged, b
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