REPORT ON THE STAPENHILL EXPLORATIONS. 159 
(Chairman), H. Partridge (Hon. Treasurer), and J. Heron (Hon. 
Secretary), was appointed for the purpose of carrying on further 
explorations, and an account of these investigations is given in 
the following pages. 
THE SociEety’s OPERATIONS.—Operations were commenced by 
digging trenches 3 feet wide and about the same depth in different 
directions, starting from the spot where the body with the 
accompanying spear head was found. 
As a result of these excavations the remains of upwards of 
thirty-six bodies were discovered, accompanied in some cases 
by personal ornaments, small iron knives, or weapons of such a 
character as to prove most conclusively that this was a burial- 
place of the Pagan Anglo-Saxons, or Pagan English, as they are 
now preferably termed, and that, at the time at which these inter- 
ments took place, those people were in quiet and undisputed 
possession of the surrounding country. 
The accompanying table shows at a glance the nature and 
positions of the various finds. 
TABLE. 
Bodies lying extended on back ns Jee) 
me f 5 right side ... eee 
3 a a left side 
7 », contracted on right side APES. 
” ” ” left side 
»» positions undetermined ze 2 Ly tO 
Bodies which had undergone cremation Ss wrt 
Total ah ht 36 
Cinerary urns ... ; a sf te 5 
Food vessels and pine cups Fete wasps 
Total a ea | 
Articles of bronze ee ion - Nee Panic. 
