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Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 6  1866  page 172

Account of the Society's Researches at Sarr (Sarre) Part II by John Brent Esq., F.S.A.

No. LXXXVIII.—A large deep grave, but with few of the bones preserved. At the feet a circular bronze dish, about twelve inches and a half in diameter and four and a quarter in depth, much worn and with one handle deficient. It had apparently stood upon a thin circular stand of bronze, some remains of which were found. An umbo and a knife, a sword, much broken but with the pommel entire, and

composed of a purple vitreous enamel or other substance inlaid with silver; and a sword-guard, as indicated by two thin parallel plates of silver.
No. LXXXIX. —A spear-head, an umbo, a large knife, and an iron buckle. An "augon," or iron spear or pike, forty-two inches long, the head armed with barbs, flattened.
No. XC.—A woman’s grave, the bones tolerably perfect. A bronze buckle on the left; an iron ring, apparently the link of a chain; close under the chin, beads of amber and porcelain, unusually rude and unartistic, and with them a circular gold pendant. A quantity
            
of gold braid round the skull (see specimens engraved), evidently once woven or laced into either the hair or the
  1. See ‘Archaeologia,’ plate xxxiv.p.178.

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