This group of gold discs decorated with impressed spirals and part of a necklace with four-spiral ornaments and tubular beads come from Protogeometric graves in Skyros. The discs are pierced for sewing onto a garment and have been impressed on wooden or bone matrices incised with a pair of compasses. The four spiral ornaments are wrought from thin wire. Identical ornaments have been found in Protogeometric graves at Lefkandi on Euboea, but the types are known already from the Mycenaean period as they are encountered in the Grave Circles of Mycenae (16th c. BC). It is not clear whether the Mycenaean tradition of jewellery-making lived on in some regions without interruption after the collapse of the Mycenaean civilisation (12th c. BC). Skyros had a vital Mycenaean past, while Euboea apparently recovered more rapidly than any other region from the disastrous consequences of the tumult at the end of the Late Bronze Age. Nonetheless, it is not impossible that long forgotten techniques were rediscovered at the end of the 10th c. BC, when the Euboeans started to develop anew trading relations with traditional centres of gold-working in the Near East.