Small barrel-shaped beads, accompanied by smaller disc-shaped beads, and two little studs of jet, were found by the late Mr. Bateman in Hay-Top Barrow, Monsal Dale,[1] accompanying the skeleton of a woman. With them was a curious bone pendant of semicircular outline, widening out to a rectangular base somewhat like a modern seal.
A necklace of ten barrel-shaped jet beads, and about a hundred thin flat beads of shale, was found with a flint knife in a barrow at Eglingham,[2] Northumberland, by Canon Greenwell. Some long and short barrel-shaped jet beads accompanied burnt bones in an urn at Fylingdales,[3] Yorkshire, and a necklace of short barrel-shaped beads, principally of bone, was found in a barrow at Aldbourne,[4] Wilts.
Jet beads, long and thin, but larger at the middle than at the extremities, and others barrel-shaped, were found with burnt bones in a barrow examined by the late Rev. Greville J. Chester, near Cromer;[5] and a magnificent necklace of jet beads, ranging from 1 to 5 inches in length, some of them expanding very much in the middle, with a sort of rounded moulding at each end, and having a few rough beads of amber intermingled with them, was found with a polished celt of black flint at Cruden,[6] Aberdeenshire, in 1812, and is preserved in the Arbuthnot Museum, Peterhead.
Some curious jet beads, one of them in the form of a ring perforated transversely, found with bronze buttons, rings, armlets, &c., in Anglesea,[7] are now in the British Museum.
A flat circular bead of jet, a flint scraper, and a bronze dagger and celt, were found by the late Mr. Bateman in a barrow near Bakewell.[8] A large pendant, apparently of jet, pear-shaped, and perforated near the smaller end, was found in a barrow on Stanton Moor,[9] Derbyshire; and a rudely-made bead of Kimmeridge shale in the long chambered barrow at West Kennet,[10] Wilts. Another pendant, consisting of a flat pear-shaped piece of shale 212 inches long and 2 inches broad, and perforated at the narrow end, was found along with querns, stones with concentric circles and cup-shaped indentations worked in them, stone balls, spindle-whorls, and an iron axe-head, in excavating an underground chamber at the Tappock,[11] Torwood, Stirlingshire. One face of this pendant is covered with scratches in a vandyked pattern. Though of smaller size, this seems to bear some analogy with the flat amulets of schist, of which several have been discovered in Portugal,[12] with one face ornamented in much the same manner, A barrel-shaped bead of cannel coal (?), 412 inches long, found near Loch Skene, and a flat eye-shaped one of shale, found near Pencaitland, East Lothian, have been figured.[13]
Pendants of jet of other forms are also occasionally found with inter- ments. That shown in Fig, 381 was discovered in a barrow at Hungry
Bentley, Derbyshire, by the late Mr. J. F. Lucas, who kindly let me- ↑ "Ten Years' Dig.," p. 74. "Cran. Brit.," vol. ii. pl. 60, 2.
- ↑ "Brit. Barrows," p. 420, fig. 159.
- ↑ Arch., vol. lii. p. 41.
- ↑ Arch., vol. lii. p. 57.
- ↑ Arch. Journ., vol, vii. p. 190.
- ↑ "Cat. A. I. Mus. Ed.," p. 10.
- ↑ Arch. Journ., vol. xxii. p. 74. Arch. Camb., 3rd S., vol. xii. p. 97.
- ↑ Arch. Assoc. J., vol. vii. p. 217.
- ↑ Arch., vol. viii. p. 59.
- ↑ Arch., vol. xxxviii. p. 413.
- ↑ P. S. A. S., vol. vi. p. 112. App. p. 42.
- ↑ Trans. Ethn. Soc., vol. vii. p. 50.
- ↑ P. S. A. S., vol. xiii. p. 127.
