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104 the thigh; it is 3$3⁄4$ inches long, and has portions of wood in it. (See woodcut.) An iron relique of precisely similar fashion and dimensions, found in a tumulus at Chatham, is figured in the "Nenia," by Douglas, who supposed it to be a pike-head, like the Roman pilum. Plate 19, fig. 5, p. 77. Another is in the Faussett collection. Compare "Fairford Graves," plate 11, fig. 8. One iron knife, 5$3⁄4$ inches long, lay by the thigh.

January 21. No. 35.—2 feet deep. No objects found with the deposit. Head to south-west. This skeleton was that of a child.

No. 36.—3 feet deep. Head to the south-west. Two thin circular plates of bronze, one of them tinned, measuring 1 inch in diameter, the other about 1$1⁄4$ inch diameter, were found lying under the skull, and fitting over each other, being united by a small slip, or band of metal, forming a kind of hinge.

No. 37.—3 feet deep. Head to the east. Pronounced by Mr. Davis to have been the skeleton of a male of forty years. Thirty-one beads lay about the collar bones; twenty-six of amber, two of green glass with crimped sides, and three of blue glass.

No. 38.—3 feet deep. Head to the south-west. A young person. One bronze baud of a situla lay by the right side of the head. Half a chased and gilt clasp was found in this day's work. Its shape resembles No. 133, plate 12, "Saxon Obsequies."

January 22. No. 39.—4 feet 11 inches deep. One cruciform bronze fibula was found by the head, chased and strongly gilt, the broad end is set with a small lozenge of yellow paste. For a similar form compare plate 6, Douglas's "Nenia," fig. 2.

No. 40.—2 feet 6 inches deep. This skeleton was pro- nounced to be that of a female of twenty-eight years of age, with beautiful teeth. One small bronze cruciform fibula on the neck; one larger fibula, 4$3⁄4$ inches long, lay about the middle of the body, chased and very strongly gilt, in most beautiful preservation, with square-shaped ornament at the broad end. 148 beads lay about the collar bones, all of amber of different sizes, with the exception of one large while crystal cut in facets, $1⁄2$ inch thick, 1$1⁄4$ inch diameter.