No. LXXXVIII.—A large deep grave, but with few of the bones preserved. At
the feet a circular bronze dish, about twelve inches and a half in diameter
and four and a quarter in depth, much worn and with one handle deficient. It
had apparently stood upon a thin circular stand of bronze, some remains of
which were found. An umbo and a knife, a sword, much broken but with the
pommel entire, and
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composed of a purple vitreous enamel or other substance inlaid with
silver; and a sword-guard, as indicated by two thin parallel plates of
silver.
No. LXXXIX. —A spear-head, an
umbo, a large knife, and an iron buckle. An "augon," or iron
spear or pike, forty-two inches long, the head armed with barbs,
flattened.
No. XC.—A woman’s grave, the bones tolerably perfect. A bronze
buckle on the left; an iron ring, apparently the link of a chain; close
under the chin, beads of amber and porcelain, unusually rude and
unartistic, and with them a circular gold pendant. A quantity
of gold braid round the skull (see specimens engraved), evidently once
woven or laced into either the hair or the
1. See ‘Archaeologia,’ plate
xxxiv.p.178.
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