Bishopsbourne Grave 2

Tumulus and grave, much as the last. The remains of an unburnt coffin were very discernible: the bones almost gone; but the few remaining teeth shewed they had belonged to an old person. Near or under the skull was found a very slender piece of brass wire, about two inches long, which, from the place where it lay, I imagine was used as an acus crinalis, or pin for the hair; indeed, it had neither head nor point; but they might probably have both of them been broken off in getting it out of the ground, as the whole of it afterwards very easily fell in pieces with common handling. I imagine this to have been a woman's grave.