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No. XCII.—A child’s grave. A broken umbo, and a single bead.
No. XCIII.—No relics.
No. XCIV—A woman’s grave. The bones are full of oil, as if lately
buried. Some curious bronze objects, one of them
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apparently a hinge; another being tubular and
perforated as to support two pendants, also of bronze. A large
quantity of amber beads, with a few black bugles, lay at the
centre of the breast, and amongst these a small circular fibula,
of bronze gilt, and set with a garnet (see Plate VI., Fig.
5).
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In this grave were also a few small pieces of gold braid,
like those in Nos. IV. and XC. A small belemnite artificially sharpened at
one end,1 a key, and a knife.
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Nos. XCV., XCV1.—Graves of women. Fragments of knives and keys, and in the
latter grave a necklace of ten beads, one of which was treble, one of
blue glass, four of clay, and one white and cylindrical
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Nos. XCVII., XCVIII.—Graves of women. Fragments
of iron. In the former an ornament of tin, slightly gilt in
parts of the pattern, and with rivets as if to fasten to a
girdle or strap.
No. XCIX.—A knife and some clench-bolts by the left side; a
piece of bronze, probably the plate
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1
Douglas, ‘Nenia Britannica,’ p. 158, mentions
belemnites found in a British grave, and supposed to have been used as
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