Guilton Grave 80

Grave as the last, and about three feet deep. Bones almost gone; no appearance of a Coffin. The head of an arrow, or small pilum, as at No. 46, etc.; this was on the right side, and near the hips, which is unusual. The blades of two knives: several long iron nails; so that though there were no traces of a coffin, there certainly was one. Many sherds of a large black wrought urn; it had three borders, one in the middle of the belly, one near the mouth, and another near the bottom, all drawn in this manner, viz.; the dots seemed to have been impressed by the end of a finger. In the sherds was, as at No. 50, a lump of burnt bones, etc.: doubtless the remains and contents of an ossuary, or bone-urn, which was disturbed and broken when this grave was dug for the person whose remains it contained; and another undeniable proof of the antiquity of this burial ground; see No. 50. Among the burnt bones was nothing but a brass broken ringle, of about three-quarters of an inch diameter, which perhaps belonged to a pair of volsellae, or nippers, which are very frequently met with in such urns.