Chartham Down Grave 26

Middle-sized tumulus; grave about two feet deep. Bones almost gone; the coffin had passed the fire. Near the right hip was a brass instrument [M 6727], seven inches in length and three-quarters of an inch broad at the upper end, which I take to be a stylus scriptorius;[1] an iron buckle, as before; and the blade of a knife, as before. The stylus had much leather adhering to it, which I imagine was the remains of its sheath: see Sibertswold, No. 151.[1]This certainly would appear to be what Mr. Faussett terms it, a style for writing; but it is very a different from the pin found at Sibertswold, which he has called a stylus.- C.R.S.