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 ANGLO-SAXON REMAINS who illustrated some of them in his Nenia Britannica* 1 The boss had five rivets in the rim and wood on the under part, showing the material of the shield. The interment had apparently been made in stiff marly soil, and from the same range of grave-mounds was recovered a bead of spindle-whorl form, made on the lathe from the epiphysis of some large animal (probably the ox) and ornamented with the ring-and-dot pattern. Plain specimens of the same material are known from such British sites as Glastonbury, but the present example may have been worn like those of glass, crystal, or amber, BROOCHES, CLASP, AND NECKLET OF BEADS, FROM BEEBY frequently found in Anglo-Saxon graves. Nichols 43 was further informed by Douglas that there were probably two graves on this site, one with the spear and shield-boss, the other containing two iron hoops, 9 in. in diameter, bronze rims, bracers, and rivets attached to a wooden bucket, of which the diameter is given as 6 in., but it probably tapered towards the mouth. 41 Published in 1793 : pp. 27, 88, pi. 7, figs. 2, 4 and pi. xxi, 9. a Hist. ofLe'tc. iii, pi. 42, p. 289. 237