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CHAPTER VI.
GOLD AND ELECTRUM JEWELLERY.
By D. G. Hogarth.
(Plates III-X.)
By far the largest number of objects found were made of either gold or natural
electrum of varying qualities. I have classed all these together because, to have
divided gold from electrum in a catalogue based on the purpose of the objects
described would have been (i) to relegate to different sections objects whose
only characteristic distinction consists in a slightly greater or less percentage of
gold ; (2) impossible to have carried out scientifiadly without subjecting a large
number of articles to a process of assay, to which there are obvious objections in
the case of delicate and fragmentary articles of jewellery. In the following
section, judging by colour and weight, I distinguish the objects as
G. = practically pure gold; G. E. = electrum of dark colour containing a
large percentage of gold ; and E. = pale electrum.
Weights are given in grains, without fractional values ; but if objects are
very fragmentary, or composed of more than one metal {e.g., electrum, or gold,
on silver) weights are not appended. Dimensions are stated only in the case
of objects which cannot be exactly measured from the full-size reproductions
on the plates, and at the same time are fairly complete.
The great majority of these objects, as will be seen by the notes appended,
were found in the filling of the Basis. The great number and variety, and
the comparatively good preservation of the Basis jewels, render them a valuable
standard for dating a great number of objects in other materials found in less
well-determined positions.
To each item in the following catalogue is prefixed the reference to the
plate on which it is figured. Where no such reference is given, the object is
not figured.
Figurines.
These are, in many cases, metal shells which have become detached
from cores, probably of wood, but possibly also of ivory or a composite
material.
CHAPTER VI.
GOLD AND ELECTRUM JEWELLERY.
By D. G. Hogarth.
(Plates III-X.)
By far the largest number of objects found were made of either gold or natural
electrum of varying qualities. I have classed all these together because, to have
divided gold from electrum in a catalogue based on the purpose of the objects
described would have been (i) to relegate to different sections objects whose
only characteristic distinction consists in a slightly greater or less percentage of
gold ; (2) impossible to have carried out scientifiadly without subjecting a large
number of articles to a process of assay, to which there are obvious objections in
the case of delicate and fragmentary articles of jewellery. In the following
section, judging by colour and weight, I distinguish the objects as
G. = practically pure gold; G. E. = electrum of dark colour containing a
large percentage of gold ; and E. = pale electrum.
Weights are given in grains, without fractional values ; but if objects are
very fragmentary, or composed of more than one metal {e.g., electrum, or gold,
on silver) weights are not appended. Dimensions are stated only in the case
of objects which cannot be exactly measured from the full-size reproductions
on the plates, and at the same time are fairly complete.
The great majority of these objects, as will be seen by the notes appended,
were found in the filling of the Basis. The great number and variety, and
the comparatively good preservation of the Basis jewels, render them a valuable
standard for dating a great number of objects in other materials found in less
well-determined positions.
To each item in the following catalogue is prefixed the reference to the
plate on which it is figured. Where no such reference is given, the object is
not figured.
Figurines.
These are, in many cases, metal shells which have become detached
from cores, probably of wood, but possibly also of ivory or a composite
material.