In 1901, Queen Victoria, who ruled England for more than 60 years and wore only black for the last 40 of them in mourning, died at 81.
Read more about the origins of her practice of wearing black jewelry made from jet, a fossilized wood gemstone from a Jurassic-period coniferous tree-seen here in a nearly 4,000-year-old necklace unearthed on the Isle of Man.
(Manx National Heritage and Rachel Crellin)
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archaeology.org/issues/359-1911/trenches/ 8077-trenches-england-jet-necklace
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