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Bifrons Anglo-Saxon Cemetery - Grave 5

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GRAVE 5 - Skeleton almost entirely decayed. Grave more than 7 feet in length. 
   Finds  Between the thighs two bronze keys;

  near them a bronze buckle;

  and above this two small circular brooches, of bronze gilt and of slightly dished shape, each embossed with a rude face in full front the pair are exactly alike.

 A knife and a few other iron fragments, one probably another key.

 On the left side of the chest a long bronze pin;

  and near the left shoulder four loose beads, one of green glass, and another fixed on a thin bronze ring, possibly an ear-ring.

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