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Bifrons Anglo-Saxon Cemetery - Grave 15

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GRAVE 15 - Grave of a woman. 
   Finds  Between the legs 35 beads. 


35 beads

On the left fore arm three iron rings, and close by a knife, with remains of a wooden sheath. 


Near the waist a small rectangular bronze brooch, set with five pieces of glass, now colourless ; its pin is also of bronze. 


Near it a small flat circular plate of bronze, perforated in the middle, and by this a bronze ferrule about half-an-inch in length. 


small flat circular plate of bronze

On each side of the neck a bronze brooch of the hammer shape, but more nearly resembling a Roman type


each side of the neck a bronze brooch

In an empty space of the grave, beyond the head, and among some dark soil which was probably hair, a long pin of bronze, almost exactly like that of Grave 5;


 and near it a small bronze plate, bent to the shape of the binding of a book, and enclosing remains apparently of wood fastened in by two rivets.


 

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