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Sarre Anglo-Saxon Cemetery - Grave 88

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GRAVE 88 - A large deep grave, but with few of the bones preserved.
   Finds  At the feet a circular bronze dish, about twelve inches and a half in diameter and four and a quarter in depth, much worn and with one handle deficient. It had apparently stood upon a thin circular stand of bronze, some remains of which were found. An umbo and a knife, a sword, much broken but with the pommel entire, and composed of a purple vitreous enamel or other substance inlaid with silver; and a sword-guard, as indicated by two thin parallel plates of silver.

 

 

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