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GRA YES. 



One of the most interesting graves which have been recently 

 opened in England is one belonging to the manor of Taplow, 

 near Maidenhead, about fifty miles by river above London. 

 The mound, 240 feet in circumference, and 15 feet high, 

 overlooks the Thames and the surrounding lands. 



Among the objects were two shield bones, one sword, 

 fragments of others, fragments of a spear head, one bronze 

 vessel, one wooden bucket so common in the graves of the 

 North, with bronze hoops, &c., two pairs of glass vessels (one 



Fig. 741. Gold fibula ornamented 

 with garnets and red glass, jj real 

 size. Taplow, England. 



Fig. 742. Fibula of bronze, 

 J real size, the edge of the 

 triangle and nail heads 

 of bronze, the middle a 

 thin silver plate. Found 

 in a mound with 14 urns 

 and burned bones, a spear 

 point of iron, &c. Zealand, 

 Denmark. 



of which is here represented) similar to one found with a 

 burial ship in Void in Norway, forty checkers, two pairs of 

 ornaments for drinking horns (all of silver gilt), one green 

 glass bead, &c. &c. ; a fibula of the same form as those of the 

 North. But the most remarkable article was a quantity of 

 gold thread belonging to a garment, the triangular form oi 

 the pattern still remaining. 



This grave, like the one of King Gorm of Denmark and 

 several others of the North, is in the old churchyard where 

 the ancient parish church stood. On the slope of the mound 



