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 ANGLO-SAXON REMAINS while at the back (see fig. 4) both ends of the pin are surrounded with char- acteristic animal shapes. It weighs about 6| ounces, and is the chief treasure of the Mayer collection at Liverpool. With it was a gold pendant of bracteate form with a star pattern, also two small spring brooches of silver recalling the La Tene type. These were lying near the left thigh with an iron girdle- hanger or key. At the feet, with an iron chainof twenty links, and perhaps a casket, was an earthenware vase of unusual type with chevron incisions on the shoulder, and two bronze bowls on a trivet, measuring i 3 inches in diameter, and containing the other which had three small loops attached by discs to the rim. A green glass cup of a usual Kentish pat- tern completed the furni- ture' of the grave, which must have been that of some illustrious lady. Another woman's grave contained two glass vases,'' one on the right of the skull, the other at the right hip ; a crystal sphere,' 1 1 inches in diameter without the usual silver bands ; a pair of earrings with blue glass beads, an amethyst bead and a silver hairpin.* Twelve amethyst and as many as eighty-six glass beads (as pi. ii. figs. 6, 12, 13) were found in another grave with gold and silver pendants, a pair of equal- armed cross pendants of silver,^ a pin of the same metal, and toilet articles. At the feet had been set a coffer containing an ivory comb, bronze and ivory bracelets, a spindle-whorl, and among other items a concha Veneris shell ; also three knife blades, with a slender sheath of bronze and wood,° a pair of shears, an iron chain, and some indeterminate metal objects.' One barrow that had escaped the notice of Faussett, but belonged to a group close to the Canterbury and Dover road, which yielded the most interesting relics in Inventorium Sepulchrale^ was opened by Thomas Wright in 1 850. It contained a woman's burial, with beads of amethyst ' 'Nen. Brit, plates x., xi. pp. 1,1-. 2 Douglas illustrates several objects from this cemetery : l^en. Brit. pi. xxi. iigs. 6, 8 (gold pendants) ; pi. xviii. figs. 2, 7, 8, 10, II (toilet articles, etc.) ; see also Akerman, Pag. Sax. pi. xxxi. (three combs). 3 Inv. Sep. p. 42. * Ibid. p. 43. ' Nen. Brit. pi. xvi. fig. I. • Inv. Sep. p. 68. ' Nen. Brit. pi. xvi. figs. 2, 3. 347 ROOCH, Side View and Back ([).