i8o Mr. G. Payne. 



Glass flagon. 



Bronze patera with handle ; the latter terminates with the head 



of a deity (Pan). 

 Bronze guttus, ornamented with four slaves' faces, in high 



relief. 

 Iron strigil and ring, for suspension. 

 Nine paterce and cups of Samian ware. 

 Two minute urns. 

 Bones of sheep. 



Grave II (1879). 

 Glass vessel containing calcined human bones. 

 Three elegant glass vases. 

 Fragments of a glass vase. 

 Iron lamp-stand. 

 Bowl of delicate white clay. 

 Two urns of Upchurch ware. 

 Pitcher of red clay. 



Three bronze strigils, with ring for suspension. 

 Fifteen paterce, and cups of Samian ware. 

 Bronze vase with highly decorated handle. 



The importance of these discoveries will be readil}' under- 

 stood from the above list, and points clearly to the graves 

 being those of affluent persons who were accustomed to the 

 luxuries of a refined life. The " strigils " found in each grave 

 were used to scrape the body with after bathing or gymnastic 

 exercises, their edges being moistened with oil which was 

 carried in a " guttus;" the oil was also used for anointing the 

 body. Interesting examples of these bathing requisites have 

 been found near Latum, not far from Urdingen.* Battely 

 figures a strigil from Reculver ; f there are also some good 

 specimens in the British Museum from Herculaneum and 

 Pompeii. It is worthy of note that objects of so costly a 

 nature as those from Bayford should have been buried simply 

 in the ground, without covering or protection of any kind. 

 One would have expected to have found them in a cist or 

 sarcophagus as discovered at Avisford, Sussex, in iSiy.j The 

 extensive Roman Cemeter}' discovered at East Hall, near 

 Sittingbourne || furnished numerous interments of probably 

 the members of the rural population of the district. The 

 mode of burial was uncommon, inasmuch as the calcined 

 bones were not placed in urns, but in most cases lay in heaps, 



* Archseologia, Vol. xliii, pp. 252 to 257. 

 t Antiquitates Rutupince, pi. xii, p. 115. 



I Collectanea Antiqua, Vol. i, pi. xliv, p. 123. 



II Archasologia Cantiana, Vol. x, pp. 178 to 183. 



