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and a half by an inch and a quarter, and bears at its angles four
ivory bosses, each pierced in the centre with a dot of lapis-lazuli .At its
back are four bronze loops to fix it to the belt or dress. It is very
substantially made, and in very perfect condition.
No. CXXVII.—Part of an iron ring, and a small bronze buckle.
No. CXXVIII. —This grave contained three skulls in juxtaposition near the
lower end of the grave. The bones were much deranged. A knife, two
amethystine beads, two of bone, and one of blue glass; a fragment of Samian
ware.
No. CXXIX.—A child’s grave, as shewn by the milk molar teeth. A small
black earthen vessel, and a knife.
No. CXXX.—A woman’s grave. Part of a bronze plated ornament, an iron buckle, and some other pieces of
iron.
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This grave, and those immediately surrounding it, had perhaps
been dug on the site of Roman interments. We found in this
another fragment of Samian ware, and not far from it was a deep,
wide, circular pit, filled to the depth of several feet with
fine black calcined earth. A small knife,
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much
burnt, was found in the pit. with charred bones of oxen and sheep, and,
strange to say, a human skeleton, shewing no sign of the action of fire,
lying with the head to the south-east. As the labour of exploring this
place seemed likely to be considerable, we left it for the time, to make
our more profitable researches elsewhere, before the season became too
far advanced.
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