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ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY ON LINTON HEATH.

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posthumous distortion. A small ring of bronze and a cir- cular piece of bone pierced for a neck ornament, with a fragment of a chased bronze fibula, were found in this day's work. 'No. 98. — 3 feet 5 inches deep. A cruciform bronze fibula lay by the left side, pierced at the two corners of the broad end. (Compare No. 1 72, plate 5, " Saxon Obsequies.") A pair of bronze tweezers, 1 inch long, was found in the day's work. Fehvuarij 17. No. 99. — 4 feet deep. A bronze st^dus, 5f inches long, with a circular flat top for erasing ; this lay by the feet. Its character appeared very Roman. No. 100. — 2 feet 8 inches deep. A bronze bow-shaped fibula, 2 inches long, similar to that figured No. 11, plate 9, " Saxon Obsequies." February 21, Xo, 101. — 4 feet 8 inches deep. Skeleton of a child. No reliques with the deposit. A pair of ear-ornaments of slight bronze. wire, hooked at each end, and havino* a small bead of o-recn olass strun2: on the wire. These were found in the soil displaced from some interment. A third brass coin (Constantinopolis) also occurred in this day's work. No. 102. — 4 feet 8 inches. Pronounced by Mr. Davis to be the remains of a man of from thirty-five to forty years of age. An iron spear, 5 inches long, lay at the left side, with an iron knife 7 inches long (see Woodcuts, fig. VI.); an iron buckle was also found with the knife and spear, measuring l-L inch in each direction. No. 103. — 5 feet 4 inches deep. One portion of a pair of bronze clasps was discovered under the body, with a third brass coin of Constantino. Fehmary 23. No. 104. — 5 feet 4 inches deep. This skeleton was pronounced by ^Mr. Davis to be that of a male of forty years of age. A bronze pin by the left arm, 1 inches long, of Roman fashion. A bone comb was found in this grave, tolerably perfect, with a bone case to fit over the rows of teeth on each side up to the slips of bone in which they are fixed, formed like a modern card-case. Similar bone combs are figured in plate 23, " Saxon Obsequies," and in Lindenschmidt's " Todtenlairer bei Sclzen." An urn of black ware was found, broken past restoration ; also a bronze pin, 5 inches long, with round top ; an iron

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