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The spear heads are lyimerous, but of no special in- 

 dividual type. The blades are some eight inches long, and 

 form with the socket, in which the remains of the handle 

 is occasionally found, a weapon thirteen inches long. The 

 smaller spear heads, presumed to belong to javelins, are not 

 half the length, and have a wider blade in proportion. The 

 other cutting weapons are the knife blades, and these have 

 been found in considerable numbers. 



The one sword stands alone. It is one of the few Saxon 

 swords which have been found which show the remains of 

 the wooden scabbard and its ornamentation. Altogether it 

 formed a weapon 2 feet 10 inches long and 2^ inches broad. 

 The end of the hilt is formed of a square piece of bronze, 

 brought to a point. The hilt and guard are decayed, but 

 where the scabbard begins there are yet the narrow bands 

 of thin bronze which held the scabbard together, and portions 

 of it can be traced down the entire length of the blade, and 

 is very similar to one found at Fairford a few years ago. 

 It shows the sign of attachment to the belt or girdle. 



The Fairford "find" was similar to the one at Longbridge, 

 for the bucket found first at the usual place at the feet of 

 the skeletons, though similar in shape and ornamen- 

 tation to the one found at Fairford, is considerably larger, 

 for it is six and a half inches high, and 'about six inches 

 in diameter, whilst the Fairford one was only four inches 

 in diameter, and between three and four inches high. 

 The mode of construction was, however different. The 

 bucket at Longbridge was formed of vertical bands of 

 bronze, ornamented with pearl mould on both sides, which 

 were rivetted with prominent studs to the three plain bronze 

 hoops, which surrounded the bucket. These hoops and 

 bands are a little over an inch broad, and correspond in 



