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102 with five nails in the rim. The brace lost. Three round stud-nails, with circular tops, 1$1⁄4$ inch diameter, were found, probably belonging to the shield. An urn. by the right side of the head, similar to those from Wilbraham, (plate 32, Saxon Obsequies;) height, 7$1⁄2$ inches; circumference, at middle, 25 inches; at top, 16$1⁄2$ inches; base, 15 inches. It had no contents. One broken iron buckle lay by the thigh. This skeleton measured 5 feet 8 inches. One bead of vitrified paste of various colours, and two perforated pieces of bronze, were found in this day's work.

January 19. No. 26. 3 feet deep. No reliques found with the deposit, which was the skeleton of a child.

No. 27.—4 feet 8 inches deep. This head was sent to Professor Owen, who pronounces it to be that of a female about fifty years old. Two bronze cruciform fibula? were discovered, one over each shoulder. These are slight, 3$1⁄4$ inches long, each surmounted on the top and on each side of the broad end, by a small stud, as in No. 128, plate 10, "Saxon Obsequies." The pins of both, length 1$1⁄2$ inch, are of bronze, and perfect. (Compare fibulæ of similar shape in the "Collectanea Antiqua," vol. ii., plate 40.)

January 20. No. 28.—The skull was sent to Mr. Davis, who considers it unusually large, and to be that of a male about twenty years of age. An iron spear, 9 inches long, lay by the head. The lower part of the blade is $3⁄4$ of an inch wide, with a shoulder 1$1⁄2$ wide a little above the base, and tapering to $3⁄4$ of an inch at the point. The blade is 6 inches long. A bow-shaped bronze fibula, $3⁄4$ of an inch long, was found at the foot. This skeleton had only one leg.

No. 29.—2 feet 8 inches deep. The body of a child, with no reliques accompanying the deposit.

January 20. No. 30.—2 feet 9 inches deep. Two cruciform bronze fibulæ, one over each shoulder. These are 2$1⁄2$ inches long and nearly similar; the pins have been of iron. One silver or white metal finger-ring was found about the middle of the body; it is a flat spiral band beaded round the edges. Twenty-three beads lay about the collar bones, seven of these are amber, four of blue glass, three of yellow and four of green opaque paste; two double beads of light green glass with broad streaks of yellow; the remainder are of vitrified paste of varied colour. One pair of bronze clasps; these lay by the left hand. Similar objects are figured in "Saxon Obsequies," No. 4, plate 12.