Sarre Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
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Sarre Cemetery Introduction
GRAVE 6 -
Finds Near the feet, and about two feet
three inches from the surface, was a small black earthen vessel,
on
the left side lay a broken umbo,
and near it, all together, as if the
contents of a bag or purse which had decayed, about fifty small
circular counters of bone or ivory, one or two apparently made out of
some animal’s teeth.
fifty small
circular counters of bone or ivory
A sword, thirty-seven inches long;
a
spear-head, eight inches and a quarter, and its ferule;
a small brass
of Magnentius;
some rivets,
a knife,
an iron ring,
and a small bronze
buckle, were also taken from this grave.
Draughts or counters are of rare occurrence in Saxon
graves. These vary a little in size and shape: all are circular and
flat-bottomed, but some nearly conical, others but slightly convex. A
pattern of little double circles, dotted in the centre, is on the
upper side of most of them. Many had decayed into fragments, and the
number of those found tolerably perfect being forty- five or fifty,
I should judge the original quantity to have been probably about
sixty.