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Jet has been used in Britain since the Neolithic period [26] It continued in use in Britain through the Bronze Age where it was used for necklace beads. [26] Jet necklaces following the plate and spacer design may have been based on Gold lunula. [27] During the Iron Age jet went out of fashion until the early 3rd century AD in Roman Britain.
Due to large demand for jet, in Whitby , a large industry was established. [8] The fossilised material, jet was valued because it was lightweight, intense black in colour, durable, inexpensive and could be easily carved. [3] [10] Jet was used to design mourning jewellery such as bracelets, necklaces, brooches, cameos and pendants.
By 1500 BC, the peoples of the Indus Valley were creating gold earrings and necklaces, bead necklaces, and metallic bangles. [ citation needed ] Before 2100 BC, prior to the period when metals were widely used, the largest jewellery trade in the Indus Valley region was the bead trade.
View of Kilmartin from Dunadd. Kilmartin Glen is an area in Argyll north of Knapdale.It has the most important concentration of Neolithic and Bronze Age remains in mainland Scotland. [1]
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The relationship between Princess Grace and the French house continued throughout her life. The bond was recently in the public eye again when Cartier relaunched the Grain de Café collection.
Medieval gem engraving only recaptured the full skills of classical gem engravers at the end of the period, but simpler inscriptions and motifs were sometimes added earlier. Pearls gathered in the wild from the Holarctic freshwater pearl mussel were much used, with Scotland a major source; this species is now endangered in most areas. [13]
Gold lunula from Blessington, Ireland, Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age, c. 2400BC – 2000BC, Classical group. A gold lunula (pl. gold lunulae) was a distinctive type of late Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and—most often—early Bronze Age necklace, collar, or pectoral shaped like a crescent moon.