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Fig. 369.—Butterwick. 1/1

In Fig. 369 a ruder example than usual is shown, full size. It is formed of a fine grained limestone, and was found by Canon Greenwell,^[1] F.R.S., with a contracted body, in a barrow at Butterwick, Yorkshire, in company with five buttons of jet, from 11/4 to 13/4 inches in diameter, of which one that is pierced in an unusual manner is engraved as Fig. 370. With the body, were a small dagger-knife, awl, and flat celt of bronze, and a flint flake trimmed along one edge. Another large plain button was found by the same explorer in a cist at Great Tosson,^[2] Northumberland. A jet button nearly square and ornamented with marginal lines was found in a cist on Dundee Law.^[3]

Fig. 370.—Butterwick. 1/1

The cruciform ornament on the stone stud would at first sight suggest the possibility of its being the Christian symbol. It is, however, so simple a form of ornament, that it may be said to belong to all time.

1. "Brit. Barrows," pp. 33, 187, 188.
2. "Brit. Barrows," p. 431. "Cran. Brit.," pl. 54.
3. Proc. S. A. S., vol. xiv. p. 266; xxiv. p. 10.