Lyminge Anglo-Saxon Cemetery - Grave 39
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Lyminge Cemetery Introduction
GRAVE 39. A woman; 60 years of age;
skull vault much thickened, suggesting Paget’s disease; supine, full
length, arms straight; 126 deg., 2 ft. 3 in. deep.
Finds. A pair of bronze-gilt saucer brooches (Pl.
VIII, No.1), one at either shoulder. The brooch on the right shoulder
was found face downwards. The iron pins have corroded but the hinge
and catch-plates remain. The flanges are 1/8 in. high and the
decoration is in a poorly executed chip-carving technique. The two
brooches are doubtless from the same mould.
bronze-gilt saucer brooches
A pair of bronze-gilt square-headed brooches (Pl.
VIII, No. 2), one found head pointing upwards on the lower chest, the
other head pointing towards the right at the left waist. The iron pins
have corroded but the hinge and catch-plates of bronze remain. The
brooches, probably from the same mould, are decorated in poorly
executed chip-carving technique with subsequent stamped decoration.
The intersection of the vertical and horizontal dividing lines is set
with a circular chipped piece of red glass.
pair of bronze-gilt square-headed brooches
A string of 18 beads (Pl. VII b, No 2) which had
been attached to the small square-headed brooch at the lower
chest. The beads are of glass, amber and baked clay. Several tiny
spherical glass beads were fused together in the process of
manufacture; four are of blue glass inlaid with vitreous paste and
one, of blue glass, is cone-shaped.
string of 18 beads
A string of nine glass beads
at the right ankle.
