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metal teeth1. At the waist a large buckle of the triangular
shape, thickly plated with gold all over, and having for
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the middle of its triangle a thin plate of gold,
ornamented with a characteristic entwining pattern. This
singularly beautiful buckle is three inches and three-quarters in
length. At the hinge of its tongue is a socket once filled with a
boss of ivory, part of which still remains, and surrounded
apparently with jewels; it has a gilt boss at each point of its
triangle.
In the ‘Inventorium Sepulchrale’ is figured a smaller buckle
of the same design, but with bronze
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bosses only; and the late
Lord Londesborough
took another like the latter from a barrow on Breach down.2
No. LXIX.—Disturbed; only a fragment of pottery.
No. LXX.—A long-necked vessel of black ware, elegant in shape, lay
near the surface. A spear-head, with its socket, and three broad iron
shield-studs, were also found.
No. LXXI.—A sword by the left side, of smaller type than usual, the
blade being very slender and only
1 [It is curious to observe the
ingenious manner in which three broken teeth in this fragment of comb
have been replaced by pins of bronze, inserted between the two layers of
ivory which form the comb’s back. The dark spot represented in the
woodcut is the discoloration of the ivory by the bronze.—T. G. F.]
2 See
Inv. Sep., plate viii. fig. 8. ‘Miscellanea Graphica,’ plate xxxiii.
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