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Sarre Anglo-Saxon Cemetery - Grave 6

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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.


 

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