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Lyminge Anglo-Saxon Cemetery - Grave 28

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GRAVE 28. A woman; 5 ft. 2 in.; 50-55 years of age;  the skeleton had been disturbed between the pelvis and the skull at an unknown date; supine, full length, 100 deg., 2 ft. 6 in. deep.
   Finds. An iron knife in the disturbed back-fill.
  A bronze Roman coin of Constantine I beneath the left leg
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   1. Mr. C. M. Kraay, of the Herberden Coin Room in the Ashmolean Museum has supplied the following reading:
  Obv. Head to right, laureate. CONSTANTINUS AVG.
  REV. Camp gate with two turrets and a star between.
  PROVIDENTIAE AVGG _I_  (mint of Trier)
                                            STR

 

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