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each, one skull in the former lying in the centre of the
grave. In No. LIII. were an iron buckle and a spearhead with its
socket.
No. LIV.—Skeleton well preserved, even to the smallest bones of the toes
and fingers. Between the feet the bronze rim of a little vessel, and close
to the toes a pair of shears,
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a Roman coin, and a bronze stud nail
set with a garnet. A knife and an umbo, both broken, lay across
the lower part of the body;
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and there were also pieces of plated bronze, an iron buckle, and
a sword, the point of which -was broken off, but which still measured
thirty-three inches, and was one of the longest swords found at Sarr.
No. LV.—Only a few beads.
No. LVI.—The ferule of a small spear and a knife.
No. LVI1.—A sword blade, thirty-two inches in length, and a spear-head
with its ferule; an umbo and some tinned or silvered shield-studs.
No. LVIII.—A woman’s grave. A mass of broken keys, a broken knife,
two other iron fragments, one perhaps the mounting of a purse.
No. LIX.—An irregular and crooked grave. A knife, an iron buckle, and
a bronze nail-head.
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