The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain (1872)
Evans, John, Sir, 1823-1908 · London : Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer · leaf 423
t, and, so far as I could judge from seeing it through glass in the Brighton Museum, it was turned in a lathe. It has heen suggested hy Mr. Barclay Phillips that some process like that of boiling amber in spirits of turpentine may have been known, by which it would be rendered plastic ; But this… … Handle of Cup. Pig. 367.— Hove. Gaul to this country. In the case of the shale cups, hoM^ever, the evidence seems in favour of their having been articles of home manufacture, and we shall shortly see to what an extent jet was used here in early times for ornamental piu'poses. Vessels without…
Stone age -- Great Britain · Great Britain -- Antiquities
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