Stonehenge Amulets Worn By Elite
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. Full Story
Related: religion, wicca, pagan, spells
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. Full Story
Related: religion, wicca, pagan, spells
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