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ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY ON LINTON HEATH.
spear, 7 inches long; an iron knife, 434 inches long, and a bone pin, 3 inches long.
All the last mentioned reliques were found in filling in the trenches and levelling the soil; they had probably been overlooked before, and had belonged to some of the graves; perhaps to those which contained numerous fragments of human bones, and had been disturbed in the operations of agriculture. As these deposits were frequent, in addition to the 104 skeletons, the cemetery must have been an extensive one. Appended is a catalogue of its contents.
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ORNAMENTS AND ARTICLES OF BRONZE.
Cruciform bronze fibulæ, five of these chased and gilt; a sixth slightly 27
Seyphate fibulæ; two chased 4
Circular fibulæ 7
Bow-shaped fibulæ 4
White metal finger-rings 7
Bronze ditto 2
Bronze armlets 2
Pairs of bronze tweezers 3
Pairs of bronze clasps 812
Ear-rings 3
Bronze pins 4
Bronze styli 4
Bronze needle 1
Bone pin 1
Bone comb-case and comb 1
Beads 740
Pair of bronze stud buttons 1
Bronze buckles 1
WEAPONS AND ARTICLES OF IRON.
Swords 2
Spears 17
Knives 20
Bosses of shields 8
Bridle bit 1
Spur 1
Buckles 14
Rings 10
POTTERY, ETC.
Perfect black urns, removed and restored 8
PerfectDo. broken 4
Entire situlæ 2
Fragments of do. 3
Small glass vessel 1
COINS POUND IN THE GRAVES.
1 Vespasian, second brass, in fine state—Reverse, pax avg.—S. C. in field
1 Carausius, third brass—Reverse, pax avg.
1 Julia Mamæa, third brass—Reverse, Diana Lucifera.
1 Constantine, third brass—Reverse, Beata tranquillitas.
1 Constantius, third brass—Reverse, Gloria Exercitus.
1 Valens, third brass—Reverse, Gloria Romanorum.
1 Valens, third brass—Reverse, Securitas reipublicæ.
1 Gratianus, third brass—Reverse, Gloria novi sieculi.
1 Constantinopolis—Reverse, Winged figure with spear and shield.
1 Constantius—Reverse, Victoriæ d.d., Aug. n.n.
10 Total
I have nut enumerated in the above list of objects discovered, three or four, the use of which is not apparent; and to which I desire to call attention for an explanation of their appliances. They are—the curious large ring and key-shaped instrument round with the skeleton No. 9; the