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PERSONAL ORNAMENTS, AMULETS, ETC.
[CHAP. XXI.

near Buxton;[1] but the plates in this case are described as of Kimmeridge coal. A most elaborate necklace, consisting of no less than 425 pieces, was found by Mr. Bateman in a barrow near Arbor Low.[2] They consisted of 348 thin laminæ of jet, fifty-four cylindrical beads, and eighteen conical studs and perforated plates of jet and bone, some ornamented with punctured patterns. Some flat ornamented beads of bone were found in Feltwell Fen[3] in 1876.

Reverse.
Fig. 376.—Pen-y-Bone 1/1
Obverse.
In a barrow, called Grind Low, at Over Haddon,[4] the ornaments were seventy-three in number, of which twenty-six were cylindrical
  1. "Vest. Ant. Derb.," p. 92. Arch. Assoc. Journ., vol. ii. p. 235.
  2. "Ten Years' Dig.," p. 25. A. A. J., vol. vii. p. 216. "Cran. Brit, vol. ii. pl. 35, 2.
  3. "Norfolk Arch.," vol. viii. p. 319.
  4. "T. Y. D.," p. 46. "Cran. Brit.," vol. ii. pl. 35, 3.