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sheath. Below it were a spear-head and a pike. A black earthen vessel, with
broken lip, lay on its side near the
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centre. A bronze buckle, a pin of bone or ivory; and
a beautiful ornament, perhaps a sword-knot, pyramidical, in shape,
but squared at the top, which is formed by a garnet set in a thin
edging of bronze. The four sides of the pyramid are ornamented
with ivory and coloured glass, set in gilt foil, and the base
hollowed to receive a small bronze
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bar, through which a little strap or thong probably passed for suspension.
Near the feet a knife and an umbo.
No. CCXII.—A small pair of scissors, near the head, on which were the
remains of a wooden sheath. Part of a key. No doubt a woman’s grave.
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No. CCXIV.—A bronze buckle; a broken knife. Evidences of wood down
each side of the grave.
No. CCXV.—A very deep grave. Traces of wood as in the last: near the
hip two glass vessels, much broken: one has since been restored,—it is
elegant and very slight, but of common type. (See ‘Inventorium
Sepulchrale,’ plate xviii. fig. 3; and ‘Pagan Saxondom,’ plate xxv.
fig. 1.)
Nos. CCXVI.—CCXIX.—-yielded no relics except a bronze buckle and two
knives; they were probably women’s graves. No. CCXVII. was nine feet
long by four wide, and five and a half deep. It reminded me of No. IV.,
and when it yielded only a small rusty knife I was sufficiently
disappointed. One point in it, however, was worthy of note, that the
body had evidently been placed upon a bier or in a coffin, two planks
apparently set edgewise, about twelve inches high and one thick,
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