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 ANGLO-SAXON REMAINS sites have already been mentioned, but there are essential points of difference between the Ipswich cemetery and others in East Angha that have yet to be explained. The specimens present on one site and absent on another are, however, generally of native manufacture, and point rather to isolation in East Anglia than to immigration from different localities on the Continent. This is an important point, for the general uniformity of East Anglian burial grounds suggests a common origin for the population of the 6th century, different from that of the Saxon occupants of Essex and the Thames valley, though not far removed from that of the midland Angles. The county town has also produced two jugs of blackish pottery that, like some other antiquities in the county, seem to be of Prankish origin. That found in Carr Street has a wide mouth with an insignificant spout and diminutive handle, and is 6| in. high, while the Princes Street specimen is more like an ordinary jug with larger handle and spout. They are both in the museum at Christchurch Park, and may be compared with others from Kent " in Maidstone and Liverpool Museums. In the Gipping valley deposits showing occupation in the 6th century have been discovered. A cinerary urn from Bramford, similar to that on plate iii, fig. 3, and of somewhat unusual form, with a cheveron pattern filled with stamps, is now in the Ipswich collection, as is also a fine pair of long brooches (pi. v), 5Jin. long, evidently from a burial at Akenham Hall; while at Norwich is another brooch of the same variety from Coddenham, 3 miles farther up the valley. At Badley, near Needham Market, during the construction of the rail- way, was found a bronze bowl that has unfortunately disappeared. According to a drawing published in the Reliquary **' it had two escutcheons of beaten form with rings for suspending chains and was furnished with a cover, while an enamelled disc ornamented the inside at the bottom. It was associated with another bronze bowl with open-work foot^' of a type common in Kent and sometimes found on the Continent, obviously dating from the 6th or 7th century. The Badley specimen in all probability served the same unknown purpose as those with three escutcheons attached to the outside below the moulded rim to hold the chains, and the type is well represented at Milden- hall (p. 346). Interments in the valley of the Waveney show that there were early Anglo-Saxon settlements on what is now the boundary between Norfolk and Suffolk. North of that line burials are recorded at Stockton, Broom, and Earsham near Bungay, and on the Suffolk side urns (presumably cinerary) have been found at Stow Park,'" and a perfect cup of pale green glass," also in the neighbourhood of Bungay. The latter (frontispiece, fig. 5) is now in the British Museum and doubtless came from a burial, as it is difficult to conceive that so fragile a relic could have survived unless carefully deposited and protected in the earth. It is 5 in. in height, and has a spiral thread round the neck and applied threads springing from the base in the form of petals, just as on the specimen found at Ipswich and presented to the museum " One from Sarre is figured in V.C.H. Kent, i, 359. " ReFijuary and Illustrated Archaeologist (1900), vi, 243 ; Arch. Ivi, 48. " V.C.H. Kent,, 372, fig. 19. '» A'or/ Arch, iv, 315. " Figured in colour by Akerman, Pagan Saxondom, pi. xxv, fig. I. 333