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Bifrons Anglo-Saxon Cemetery - Grave 21

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GRAVE 21 - 
   Finds  Near the waist a large bead of brown glass,


 a knife,


 a ring,


 some bronze studs,


 and fragments of iron. · 


At the neck a few beads and two remarkable brooches of the hammer shape, their lower ends being semi-circular, but from the circumference of the semi-circle radiate five outstanding points, set with small circular pieces of red glass; red glass is also set at the upper end of each brooch ; the pair are exactly alike.


two remarkable brooches of the hammer shape

On the top of the skull some fragments of gold wire or thread, consisting of very narrow strips, cut from a thin beaten plate of pure gold. By the shape into which they are folded they have clearly been interwoven into some substance of the nature of a riband, which has perished. Their gold is so pure that a burial of some 1300 years had not discoloured it in the least. 


At the left side of the head a circular bronze dish, much broken and decayed, surrounded by remains of wood, as if it had formed the interior lining of a wooden vessel. 


In sifting the rubbish was found an iron key.


 

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