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A Necklace from a Barrow in North Molton parish, North Devon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

Aileen Fox  and
J. F. S. Stone
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In examining some material in the reserves of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, I noticed a small necklace which includes beads of blue faience (pl. vii a). The entry in the museum's Accessions Book stated that it had been presented in 1917 by Mr. A. Amos, ‘from a barrow on Beacon Hill, North Molton’, and that it had been ‘found with cremated bones, an urn and flint implements’. After many difficulties I succeeded, with the help of Mr. R. Tucker, agent to Lord Poltimore for his North Molton estate, in obtaining details of the discovery. I am much indebted to him for his services, and to Mrs. Lamb and Miss Amos of Dawlish, and to Mr. Passmore of North Molton for the information they so readily provided about an event of so many years ago.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 31 , Issue 1-2 , April 1951 , pp. 25 - 31
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1951

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page 25 note 1 According to Mr. Passmore, the tenant who succeeded Mr. Bird, and who remembers being shown both the finds and the site of the discovery.

page 25 note 2 He married Miss Bird the following year.

page 25 note 3 Mr. Charles Bird emigrated to America and is now dead.

page 27 note 1 The three barrows, although marked as mounds on the 6-in. map Devon XV. NW., were not recognized as antiquities by the Ordnance Survey.

page 27 note 2 The ‘Five Barrows’ (actually eight) on the Devon-Somerset county boundary: see Worth, R. H., Trans. Devon. Assoc. xsxviii, 62Google Scholar, for some account of these.

page 27 note 3 Arch., 1936, lxxxv, 203.Google Scholar

page 27 note 4 For a comparison of Wiltshire, Egyptian, and other segmented beads by spectrographic analytical methods, see Antiquity, 1949, xxiii, 201.Google Scholar

page 28 note 1 Arch., 1936, lxxxv, pl. LXVIII, no. 12.Google Scholar

page 28 note 2 Ibid., pl. LXVIII, no. 5.

page 28 note 3 Antiquity, 1931, v, 429, no. 5.Google Scholar

page 28 note 4 Arch., 1936, lxxxv, pl. LXIII, no. 3.Google Scholar

page 29 note 1 Proc. Prehist. Soc., 1938, iv, 52 and 80Google Scholar: they occur in 25 out of a total of 99 graves.

page 29 note 2 Described by A. F. in Proc. Devon Arch. Exp. Soc. for 1949.