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 ANGLO-SAXON REMAINS over a boat, thus anticipating the Vikings of Norway. The scanty finds within the boat suggest that two persons were buried with it, the hair alone being preserved (as sometimes occurs), and the glass, if not the gold finger- ring, fixes the interment within certain limits of date. Glasses of this peculiar form are fairly common in Kent (Reculver, Ashford, Gilton, Coombe, Sarre), and occur occasionally in other counties (Surrey, Hants, Gloucs., Bucks., Cambs., Northants, and Durham), as well as in the north of France, and on the Middle Rhine ; but their place of origin is as yet undetermined. From associated objects it is, however, possible to assign them to the 6th century in general, though some may belong to the late 5th or early 7th century, and the ring seems, in the present instance, decisive for the earlier date. In that part of the Deben Valley, which approaches the higher ground and runs parallel to the sea-shore at a distance of seven or eight miles, Anglo- Saxon finds have been plentiful. In this group may be included Kesgrave, where a fine cinerary urn has been found. It is now in Ipswich Museum, and is 8 in. high with a diameter of 9 in., the neck and shoulders being ornamented with stamps (cross in circle and triangle filled with dots) arranged in a Vandyke pattern.'" Another urn, now in the national collection, was found in Waldringfield churchyard," and is a typical specimen of Anglo-Saxon pottery. It is smaller than the average cinerary urn, being 51 in. high, of dark brown ware, hand-made, with a row of bosses divided by triple vertical lines round the shoulder, and circular hollows round the neck between bands of lines. Higher up the river at UfFord a good specimen of the long brooch was found in 18 19, and may have belonged to an unburnt burial, though no further details are given." It was 5 in. long, and about i in. was missing from the foot, which had a fan terminal and prominent ' nostrils ' on either side of it. There were wings attached to the plate below the bow, and extensions to the knobs on the head, all these features pointing to the latter part of the 6th century or a little later. In the British Museum is part of a jewelled buckle (frontispiece, fig. i) from Melton, that has all the appearance of Kentish work." It was found in 1833, and is of triangular form, with a central plate of gold embossed with pure (not animal) interlacing and a border of garnets in cells of cheveron pattern. The hoop and tongue are missing, but the original appearance can be readily inferred from extant specimens,'* such as that found by Faussett at Gilton, Kent." Another relic, apparently of Kentish manufacture, was found in the same neighbourhood, at Sutton near Woodbridge. It is now in the Fitch Room at Norwich Museum, and has been well published," but is not by any means complete. Like the somewhat similar jewel from Ixworth, it is but the front of a circular brooch (fig. 5), and even if the back and pin were lost before in- terment, the finder cannot be pardoned for having thrown away all the settings '" Coll. Antiq. ii, 233, pi. liv, fig. 4. " East Anglian N. and Q. i, 347. " Joum. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xviii, 225, pi. xi, fig. 4. " Arch. Joum. ix, 116 (fig.). '* Douglas, 'Nenia Britannica, 53 ; Arch, xxx, pi. i, fig. 21. " Inventorium Sepulchrale, pi. viii, fig. 8 ; cf. y.C.H. Kent, i, 373, pi. ii, fig. 7. '* Arch. Album, 206 ; Fairholt, Costume in Engl. 465 ; Akerman, Arch. Index, pi. xvi, fig. 12. I 329 42