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Lyminge Anglo-Saxon Cemetery - Grave 30

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GRAVE 30. A man; 5 ft. 10 in.; 20 years of age; supine, full length, arms straight, head pillowed; 90 deg., 2 ft. 4 in. deep.
Finds. An iron knife at the left arm.
   An iron purse-mount (Fig. 4, No. 2) at the left arm. The purse-mount is incomplete but its size has been restored on the basis that the corroded remains of the base of a small iron buckle indicate the centre of the mount (cf. The purse-mount from grave 22) . The purse contained
a worked flint (Fig. 10, No. 3).
   An iron buckle (Fig. 9, No. 5)

 

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