108 Thi Bilfri/ formerly >if(indimj in the Clo>ie, Salishury. 



at lais I'iglit side, the head being found above the shoulder, the 

 sliield laid flat on the body, the sword — if he had one — at his side, 

 and the knife at his gii-dle. The two shield bosses in this case 

 sufficiently prove that these were two graves of men, but on the 

 other hand the spindle whorl, the ear-pick and the beads are articles 

 — especially the first-named — commonly found in women's graves. 

 One of the lower jaws preserved is, moreover, much slighter and 

 less square in outline tlum the other. The fibulae might belong to 

 either men or women. The position of these pairs of brooches seems 

 to liavo been either on the breasts, as in the Fairford graves, or just 

 b(^lo^^' file slioulders, as in those at Harnham. 



%\t §clfrj] fovmcrlg stanbiug in tijc Close, 

 ^alisiiuxi atiir its §dls. 



By John Harding. 



I^JPS^^HE ancient BeU-tower, or Belfiy as it had been called from 

 ■llrf/i the earliest times, stood between the Oathedi-al and the 

 north wall of the churchyard, very near the spot where there is 

 now a solitary and weather-beaten old elm ivQe, which is shown in 

 the print of the south-east view of the Belfry given by Hatcher as 

 a young tree, growing near the doorway. 



Visitors to the Cathedral during the dry summers of 1887 and 

 1893, after passing a few yards into the churchyard on their way 

 to the noi-th porch, could hardly have failed to notice, in the turf to 

 the left of the path, traces of the buried foundations of walls and 

 buttresses, mapped out in broad brown patches of withered grass. 

 These marks indicated the site of the old Belfry, and are visible 

 from time to time after a long continuance of dry summer weather. 



It is remarkable that no ^vriter has left us any description of this 



