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in most respects to others which have been found at
Gilton,
Ashford, Reculver, and Fairford, and in a few places in France and Germany.’
No. CLXIX.—A woman’s grave. A large key, eight inches long, by the left
side, and a knife just above it.
Nos. CLXX.—CLXXII.—A black earthen vessel,
much decayed and not preserved, a broken knife, and a piece of iron.
No. CLXXIII.—A woman’s grave. Several beads of amethyst, porcelain, and
clay, some keys, and small pieces of bronze.
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No. CLXXIV. — A
woman’s grave. A small ivory pin or bodkin, swelling in the
middle and ornamented with grooves where it is widest, and with
little round holes on the head; some pieces of iron, and parts of
two bone combs. One of these fragments is very
curious, the comb having worked on a hinge in a case or
handle, like the pocket combs of our own day.
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No. CLXXV.—No relics.
Nos. CLXXVI., CLXXVII.—Children’s graves. A small piece of bronze
and some very small glass beads.
No. CLXXVIII.—Disturbed; no relics. Grave of a woman, as shewn by the
teeth.
No. CLXXIX.—An oblique grave. A knife at the feet.
No. CLXXX.—A long narrow knife and a spearhead; the latter opens down
part of the shaft, like the socket of a bayonet, with two cross bands of
iron over the opening.
No. CXXXI.—Probably a Roman interment. Remains of a mortuary urn were
found on the floor of the grave, with fragments of other Roman pottery.
In the centre of the floor was a large piece of unbaked clay, and near ‘it
the bones of sheep and the jaw of a dog or
See Akerman’s ‘Pagan Saxondom,’
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