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National Museum at Edinburgh. It shows the most common form of button, and the cut has been made use of frequently. One of the same character, 13/4 inches in diameter, and found in a barrow on Lambourn Down, Berkshire, is preserved in the British Museum. It has a rounded projection at the apex of the flat cone. In two of Kimmeridge shale, from Net Low, Alsop Moor, Derbyshire,^[1] there is a similar projection and also a slightly raised beading round the edge. They accompanied a large bronze dagger, which lay close to the right arm of an extended skeleton. A button of jet, 13/4 inches in diameter, was found near the shoulder of a contracted skeleton, in a barrow near Castern, Derbyshire.^[2] A small piece of calcined flint lay near.

Several studs or buttons of polished Kimmeridge coal, of the same character, but slightly more conical than Fig. 373, were found by Mr. F. C. Lukis in a barrow near Buxton.^[3] A flint celt accompanied another interment in the same barrow. What appears to be a small stud of jet, but which is described as a cone, was found with a ring, like a pulley, of the same material, and a fine flint dagger and other objects, buried with a skeleton at Durrington Walls, Wilts.^[4] A larger ring and disc, perforated with two holes for suspension, together with some beautifully formed stemmed and barbed flint arrow-heads (see Fig. 320), and a bronze dagger, accompanied a contracted interment in a barrow near Fovant, in the same county.^[5] A button formed of a substance like concrete was found with part of a leaf-shaped arrow-head, some beads, &c., in a barrow at Boscregan,^[6] Cornwall. It is nearly hemispherical in shape. In four cists at Tosson, near Rothbury, Northumberland,^[7] were contracted skeletons, two of them accompanied by an urn. In one of the cists were three of these buttons, 2 inches in diameter, described as of cannel coal; and in another was an iron javelin-head. They are sometimes of much smaller dimensions. One of this character, found in the Calais Wold barrow by Messrs. Mortimer, has been figured full size in the late Mr. Ll. Jewitt's Reliquary.^[8] His cut is reproduced as Fig. 374. Twenty small buttons of inferior jet were found by Canon Greenwell in a barrow at Hunmanby,^[9] Yorkshire. Two small buttons of jet were picked up at Glenluce,^[10] Wigtownshire.

Fig. 374.—Calais Wold Barrow. 1/1

Occasionally we find conical studs of this form perforated by two converging holes in the base, forming what were, in some cases, apparently the termination of necklaces or gorgets. It seems possible that these were not made to clasp the whole neck, but were merely attached in some manner between the shoulders in front, as is supposed to have been the case with many of the Anglo-Saxon necklaces. Two of these studs were found with other beads of a necklace in Holyhead Island,^[11] and are mentioned at p. 459. With other

1. "Vest. Ant. Derb.," p. 68.
2. "Ten Years' Diggings." p. 152.
3. Reliq., vol. viii. p. 86.
4. Hoare's "South Wilts," p. 172.
5. L. c., p. 239.
6. Arch., vol. xlix. p. 189.
7. Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., vol. iv. p. 60. "Cran. Brit.," vol. ii. 54, 2.
8. Vol. vi. p. 188.
9. Arch., vol. lii. p. 19.
10. Proc. S. A. S., vol. xv. p. 269.
11. Arch. Journ., vol. xxiv. p. 257.