Grave-mounds and their contents; a manual of archaeology, as exemplified in the burials of the Celtic, the Romano-British, and the Anglo-Saxon periods (1870)
(fig. 171). The beads of which it is composedlay about the neck of the skeleton. It was formed of vari-ously shaped beads and other ornaments of jet and bonecuriously ornamented. The various pieces of this elabo-rate necklace count 420 in number; 348 being thin laminae,54 of cylindrical form, and… … Another good example is engraved on the next page. Itwas found at Fimber, by Mr. Mortimer, and consists of171 laminae, or small jet discs (No. 2), and a triangularpendant, or centre, of jet (No. 3), an inch in length, andperforated in the middle. Studs and pendants of jet are of various forms, and…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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