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posted on 2021-11-10, 15:41 authored by Helena HamerowHelena Hamerow
LXXXV. An oblique grave; disturbed. A bone of sheep or deer was found with the skeleton, as well as a broken knife, and a bronze fibula [KAS 378] of the ring shape. The latter measures about an inch and a half in diameter, and is ornamented with little grooves, and with bosses at intervals as if to imitate joints. One much like it is figured in the Inventorium Sepulchrale, and Mr. C. Roach Smith describes another found at Ozingell. Mr. Akerman gives a plate of a similar ring, with keys suspended from it, in his Pagan Saxondom (p. 57). From the archaic character of this fibula, and the facts that the grave varied considerably in direction from its neighbours and contained an animal's bone, I am inclined to rank this among the oldest of the graves at Sarr.

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Grave

Date excavated

between September and December 1863

Reference

Brent 1866

Page number

171

Sonia Hawkes description

Oblique grave, disturbed.a. sheep or deer bone, b. broken knife, c. ring-shaped bronze fibula

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