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twenty-seven inches in length; an umbo over the face, and two spear-heads by
the left shoulder.
Nos. LXXII.—LXXIV. contained two knives, a fragment of a comb, an iron
buckle, and a broken umbo
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No. LXXV.—A woman’s grave. Several beads in the
centre, two of amethyst; two small bronze buckles, some keys, a
bronze pin,1 and a broken knife.
No. LXXVI.—A woman’s grave. A fine collection of beads, with
some broken keys and a knife. The beads in this and the last grave
are very various; discoid, cylindrical, conical (single and
double), pentagonal, and spherical. They are prettily coloured
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and curiously marked and designed, the predominating hues being red, blue,
brown, green, and yellow.
Nos. LXXVII—LXXX.—Only a few pieces of iron and two small fragments of
bronze.
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No.
LXXXI.—Disturbed; the deepest grave opened at Sarr, being six feet
from the surface. Its length was nine feet, and its width nearly five.
At the head of the grave was a small bronze pin, a spear-head with its
ferule, both broken, and apparently before burial; part of a
shield-brace. A small piece of yellow clay, about the size of a walnut,
was found on the chalk floor of the grave.
No. LXXXII.—Disturbed; no relics.
1 [Further cleaning has revealed a very
peculiar shape to this pin, the point of which is bent back into a barb
or hook, not unlike that of a modern crochet-needle. The woodcut shows
this inverted points as well as a small indentation in the side of the
pin, neither of which, I think, are traceable to accident or decay. The
latter is hollowed into the side opposite the hook, and may have served
as a guide or rest to the forefinger in its use. Can we suppose our
Saxon ancestresses to have been educated in the mysteries of crochet ?
Or may not this very delicate hook have been intended for pulling
threads through the stitches, before the invention of eyed needles, as a
finer and easier substitute for the tweezers which are supposed to have
been so used? —T. G. F.] |