101 AXGLO-SAXON CEMETERY ON LTXTON HEATH.

tlie thigh ; it is 3f inches long, and has portions of wood in it. (See woodcut.) An iron rehqne of pre- cisely similar fashion and dimensions, found in a tumulus at Cliatham, is figured in the " Nenia," by Douglas, who supposed it to be a pike-head, like the Roman pilion. Phite li), fig. 5, p. 77. Another is in the Faussett collection. Compare '• Fairford Graves," plate 11, fig. 8. One iron knife, b'l inches long, lay by the thigh. January '11. No. 35. — 2 feet deep. No objects found with the deposit. Head to south-west. This skeleton was that of a chihl. No. 36. — 3 feet deep. Head to the south-west. Two thin circular plates of bronze, one of them tinned, measuring 1 inch in diameter, the other about inch diameter, were found lying under the skull, and fitting over each other, being united by a small slip, or band of metal, forming a kind of liinge. No. 37. — 3 feet deep. Head to the east. Pronounced by !Mr. Davis to have been the skeleton of a male of fort}' years. Tliirty-one l)cads lay about the collar bones ; twent^'-six of amber, two of green glass with crimped sides, and three of blue glass. No. 38. — 3 feet deep. Head to the south-west. A young person. One bronze baud of a sifiila lay by the right side of the head. Half a chased and gilt clasp was found in this day's work. Its sha})e resembles No. 133, plate 12, " ^Saxon Obsequies." January 22. No. 3.9. — 4 feet 11 inches deep. One cru- ciform bronze fibula was found by the head, chased and strongly gilt, the broad end is set with a small lozenge of yellow paste. For a similar form compare plate < I, Douglas's " Nenia," fig. 2. No. 40. — 2 feet (I inches deep. This skelotun was pro- noiuicdl to be that oi" a female of twenty-eight veai's of age, with beautilul teeth. One small bronze cruciform fibula on the neck ; one larger fibida, 4;,^ inches long, lay about the middle of the body, chased and very strongly gilt, in most beautiful })reservation, with s(|uare-sh?iped ornament at the liroad end. 148 beads lay al)out tlio (Millar bones, all of amltcr of diflerent sizes, with the cNcciitiitn of one large while crystal cut in facets, inch thick, I ,| inch diameter.