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Lyminge Anglo-Saxon Cemetery - Grave 29

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  GRAVE 29. A woman; 5 ft. 5 in.; 55-60 years of age; supine full length, left arm across the pelvis; 97 deg., 1 ft. 6 in. deep.
   Finds. An iron knife at the left arm.
   An iron buckle and rectangular iron attachment-plate 
(Pl. IX, No. 4) at the right waist, tongue pointing right. The tongue of the buckle is inlaid with bronze strip 1/64 in. wide, at intervals of about the same width. It has not been possible to X-ray photograph the buckle and its attachment-plate but further inlaid decoration must be regarded as probable.

 

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