Kingston Down Grave 171

Tumulus of the middle size. The grave about three feet deep, with its feet pointing to the east. The bones were pretty sound: close by the skull was a brass pin, with its head flattened on two sides longitudinally; it has a hole in its head, and is exactly like that described at No. 72. Here was also a broadish silver ring, in shape not much unlike our modern wedding rings.[1] The blade of a knife: a small iron buckle; and some nails. The coffin did not appear to have passed the fire.[1]Mr. Hillier, very recently found a similar ring upon a finger bone of the skeleton of a female in the Saxon cemetery upon Chessell Down, in the Isle of Wight.- C.R.S.