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Sarre Anglo-Saxon Cemetery - Grave 68

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GRAVE 68 - A grave nearly as deep as the last. 
   Finds  A sword at the left hand, and an umbo (broken) on the right side; the ribs of a small bronze bucket, a knife, and some tags and studs, a fragment of a comb with metal teeth. 

At the waist a large buckle of the triangular shape, thickly plated with gold all over, and having for the middle of its triangle a thin plate of gold, ornamented with a characteristic entwining pattern. This singularly beautiful buckle is three inches and three-quarters in length. At the hinge of its tongue is a socket once filled with a boss of ivory, part of which still remains, and surrounded apparently with jewels; it has a gilt boss at each point of its triangle.
   In the ‘Inventorium Sepulchrale’ is figured a smaller buckle of the same design, but with bronze bosses only; and the late Lord Londesborough took another  like the latter from a barrow on Breach down.


large buckle of the triangular shaped buckle


detail of centre of large triangular shape buckle

   

 

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