Sarre Grave 211

CCXI. A very perfect sword, thirty-five inches from hilt to point, lay from the centre high up by the skull, inclining to the right. It had borne a metal sheath. Below it were a spear-head [KAS 915] and a pike [KAS 898]. A black earthen vessel [KAS 244], with broken lip, lay on its side near the centre. A bronze buckle, a pin of bone or ivory [KAS 329]; and a beautiful ornament, perhaps a sword-knot, pyramidical in shape, but squared at the top, which is formed by a garnet set in a thin edging of bronze. The four sides of the pyramid are ornamented with ivory and coloured glass, set in gilt foil, and the base hollowed to receive a small bronze bar, through which a little strap or thong probably passed for suspension. Near the feet a knife and an umbo [KAS 852].