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Edited Oct 25, 2009, 14:36

Re: Calling Branwen, re jet

Oct 25, 2009, 14:02

http://whitbyjet.net/definition.html

This website has a clear description of how yet forms, and why the centre of the tree trunk keeps its grain and shape more tha the outside, becoming siliconised instead of compressed.

This site below has more.
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba70/feat3.shtml

I found this fact most interesting:

We can tell by the degree of wear that some of the jet pieces probably came from 'heirloom' necklaces already 200-300 years old by the time they were reused.

Makes me wonder if the necklaces were broken when put in the grave, and some of the essence of the person given to descendants in the form of some beads to start their own necklace.

and this:

Most of these necklaces come from graves, and where the sex of the deceased has been determined, it is allegedly almost always female. However, at Tara in Ireland, one was definitely worn by a young man

Shows it wasn't just women. The Greeks said jet was sacred to the moon goddess, and perhaps its wearers were devotees, mostly, but not always, women.

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