Fig. 169.
Fig. 170.
Flakes of various sizes and forms constantly occur, and are called by many absurd names. Small, delicately formed, and very beautiful flints, of an oviform or circular shape, are also found ([fig. 168]), as are a large number of other forms besides those I have illustrated. These will, however, be sufficient for my present purpose, and will enable the reader to form a pretty correct and extended estimate of the number and variety of flints which the grave-mounds produce. Celts of flint are also occasionally found. An example here shown ([fig. 170]) was discovered in a very interesting barrow called “Gospel Hillock,” at Cow Dale, near Buxton, by Captain Lukis. It measured four and a half inches in length.
Fig. 171.
In Jet, the articles found consist of beads, rings, necklaces, studs, etc., and some of these are of the utmost beauty. A very elaborate example of necklace, found by Mr. Bateman in the cist ([fig. 28]) on Middleton Moor, is here engraved ([fig. 171]). The beads of which it is composed lay about the neck of the skeleton. It was formed of variously shaped beads and other ornaments of jet and bone curiously ornamented. The various pieces of this elaborate necklace count 420 in number; 348 being thin laminæ, 54 of cylindrical form, and the remaining 18, conical studs and perforated plates, some of which are ornamented with punctures.
Another example ([fig. 172]), with elongated beads, and pierced ornaments of bone, is here given.
