Stonehenge Amulets Worn by Elite April 6, 2007 Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News Forget dressing for success: Clothing ornaments thought to confer supernatural power were all the rage among chiefs and other important people in England 4,000 years ago, say scholars. A recent find indicates some of these fashion trends might have originally been designed by Stonehenge leaders. While working two months ago in South Lowestoft, Suffolk, British archaeologist Clare Good excavated a four-sided object made of the mineral jet. It closely matches a geometrically designed gold object found far away at a burial site called Bush Barrow near Stonehenge in Wiltshire.
The match is so close that experts believe the black artifact is a skeuomorph, or a copy in a different material.
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Editor Mike Pitts describes the jet object as having "two parallel lines around the edge, supporting 12 pendant semi-circles inside with a double circle and dot in the center. Small floating lines of rocker decoration, some on the side facets, complete the design."
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Monday, April 09, 2007
Stonehenge Amulets?
Discovery Channel News has an interesting piece on some items that have been dubbed 'stonehenge amulets'
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