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Sarre Anglo-Saxon Cemetery - Grave 238

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GRAVE 238 - 
   Finds  A spear-head vertically placed, as in the last grave, in the upper soil; an arrangement evidently designed, but for what object is not apparent. Three beads, a small bronze buckle, iron rivets, and a peculiar object in iron, about six inches and a half  long; the remains of keys or spears, much corroded, a foreign shell, the Cyprea Arabica, some broken mussel-shells, and a very small fragment of deep violet glass.
   All these small objects appear to have been placed in a box, and exhibited more or less the action of fire. This grave yielded also pieces of iron, like links of a cable-patterned chain, arid some bronze rings. Its incongruous contents might indicate a double interment, the beads and shell being the relics of a woman, the spear-head of a man.

 

 

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