Sarre Grave 238

A spear-head vertically placed, as in the last grave, in the upper soil; an arrangement evidently designed, but for what object is not apparent. Three beads [KAS 441], a small bronze buckle, iron rivets, and a peculiar object in iron [KAS 643], about six inches and a half long; the remains of keys or spears, much corroded, a foreign shell, the Cyprea Arabica [KAS 475], some broken mussel-shells, and a very small fragment of deep violet glass [KAS 484?].All these small objects appear to have been placed in a box, and exhibited more or less the action of fire. This grave yielded also pieces of iron, like links of a cable-patterned chain, and some bronze rings. Its incongruous contents might indicate a double interment, the beads and shell being the relics of a woman, the spear-head of a man.