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
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
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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