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Fragments of an earthen vessel and of a knife; a few clench bolts; a broken
iron buckle and a bronze tag.
No. XXXV.— A woman’s grave. A few beads, some double; an iron ring or
rude fibula.
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No. XXXVI.—This grave had a recess
cut in the chalk to receive the head. A spearhead and its ferule
lay by the right cheek, an umbo (broken) by the right shoulder;
small bronze rivets, or tags, with the worms of the screws still
apparent, and a small bronze buckle.
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No. XXXVII.—No interment discoverable.
No. XXXVIII.—A youth’s grave. A knife, a ferule, and a piece of iron.
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No. XXXIX.—A double grave, of two old men buried one above another. The
upper, a person of stout frame, and short but large bones, had with him
a spear-head to the left of the skull, and, lower down, its ferule and a
broken knife.
The lower interment contained a wooden bucket at the right foot about
eleven inches in diameter, having a bronze
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rim and an ornament of bronze like some
attached to a similar bucket found at Fairford; its bottom and
sides had nearly perished. Two knives, one of which measured
nearly nine inches
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in
the blade; a bronze buckle; an umbo with iron bands which had led from
it outwards to the rim of the shield, and the studs by which it had been
fastened. The impression of the whole shield, about eighteen inches in
diameter, was very apparent in the soil. 1. Two
spear-
1 The common circular fibula with a central
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