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Suspended from the girdle, fragments of keys being attached to its lower
end.
No. CLXXXVIII. — Grave of a woman and child.
Teeth of an adult, and milk molar teeth. A single small amethystine bead
first appeared, then three or four other beads, some very small; and small
fragments of iron.
No. CLXXXIX.—An umbo on the left side, lying edgewise. A sword, a knife,
and a spear-head.
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No. CXC.—A sword by the left side, thirty inches
long in the blade. A fractured umbo near the foot; a
delicately-shaped spear-head, two knives, an ornamented bronze
buckle, and an iron bolt-head.
Nos. CXCI.—CXCVII. — produced few
relics. Some bronze platings and two broken knives. Nos.
CXCIV. and CXCVI., had been
disturbed, and the bones much
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displaced. The latter had contained two
persons
No. XCVIII.—(near the turnpike-gate on the Ramsgate road.) At the foot
of the grave was a small hole containing human bones. Also about forty
counters of bone or ivory, like those of grave No. VI., fifteen of which
had two holes, penetrating some half inch, cleanly cut into their flat
bottoms, doubtless a
distinguishing
mark; and with them were two dice, much decayed, one however bearing the
mark of cinq, the other that of six, exactly as in modern
dice, distinctly visible.
In this grave were also two gilt stud-heads or rivets, still quite
bright; a bronze buckle, and one of iron, and
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