Guilton Grave 48

Grave as the last, and about three feet deep: much black dust, the remains of a thick burnt coffin: bones almost gone: a large and long head of an hasta, exactly like that described at No. 28; it lay on the right side of the coffin, and out of it: an hemispherical umbo and ten brass studs, with flat, round, heads, about half an inch broad: an hollow iron cylinder, as before: a cross piece of iron to fasten the umbo, as before: a very large silver buckle, gilded, and curiously chased, and worked, and figured all over its front [M 6004]; it is of the sort of the fibulae subnectentes, having its tongue underneath: the blades of two knives: a small piece of a silver ornament, gilded [M 6005]: the blade of a broad sword, of the same size and figure as at Nos. 10 and 23; its hilt was of wood, part of which still adhered to the strig, which was clenched through it; the strig, from the beginning of the blade to the clenching, was six and a half inches long; the scabbard was also, as I imagine, of wood, or, at least, was lined with it, for the blade had a great deal of rotten wood adhering to it. I am certain that this sword was buried in the coffin with its master; it was much more perfect than either of those before mentioned; but being very rotten, it broke with its own weight in taking out. Here were also several nail-like pieces of iron.