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Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 6  1866  page 168

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

No. LX.—Nine feet and a half in length, and four feet and a half in depth. A small bronze buckle, the head of a small

spear, and a knife; one of those rare glass vessels of the pillared or twisted pattern, very like that in the Museum at Canterbury, which was found, as is said, near Reculver.

   It lay horizontally at the head, with its rim close to the end of the grave. It was broken, but is complete, and has been restored. (See Plate V., Fig. 3.)
No. LXI.—A broken knife, a key, and a single bead.
No. LXII.—Grave of a very old person. A knife and an iron buckle.
No. LXIII.—A woman’s grave. Bugle beads, and a few of amber; a plaque or ornament to a stoup, and a circular bronze fibula.
No. LXIV.—An umbo at the feet: some tinned studs, a 

spear-head, a broken knife, and a sword, the latter broken near the point.
No. LXV.—Probably a youth’s grave. A small spearhead and a knife. Some remains of a black earthen vessel of very friable material lay near the foot of the grave.
No. LXVI.—Disturbed; no relics.
No. LXVII.—A very large grave, five feet and a half deep, and nine feet long, but containing only the fragments of a bronze buckle, a tag, and three beads. A girl’s grave by the bones, in spite of its size.

No. LXVIII.—A grave nearly as deep as the last. A sword at the left hand, and an umbo (broken) on the right side; the ribs of a small bronze bucket, a knife, and some tags and studs, a fragment of a comb with

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