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Bifrons Anglo-Saxon Cemetery - Grave 1

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GRAVE 1 - 2 feet 4 inches in depth. 
   Finds  Near the hands a knife;


near the waist a bronze buckle, of which the tongue had been iron,


 and a small bronze stud or boss, of oval shape, with raised centre containing a flat piece of red glass set in its front ; it was apparently once fastened to a strap behind.


 By the left ear a glass drinking cup of delicate green colour, with an opaque white wavy ornament running round it half way down the side. Its height is 6¾ inches, and its width at the lip 27/8 inches, from which it tapers to a rounded point at the bottom. It lay horizontally, with one side to the ear, and the lip to the shoulder. (Plate I.)


a glass drinking cup

 

 

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