Sibertswold Downs Grave 27

Tumulus and grave much as the last. The bones were almost gone; the coffin had passed the fire. Near the neck were three small beads; about the middle of the grave, and near the right hip, was a round, thin, brass plate, two inches and three-eighths diameter [M 6454]; it had eleven small holes near its edges, by which it appears to have been fastened to something, perhaps to the garment of the deceased, for if it had been riveted either to wood, ivory, or the like, the rivets would, one would think, some of them out of so many, have still hung in the holes; but no such rivets were found. Here was also found a small fragment of a very thin, blue glass phial or urn, not broken now, but, as I suppose, when this person was deposited; it having, as I guess, been pre-interred (if I may be allowed the expression) with some person whose remains were disturbed at that time. A woman's grave.