160 REPORT ON THE STAPENHILL EXPLORATIONS. 
Articles of iron— 
Spear heads 
Javelin heads 
Knives 
Buckles 
Boss of shield 
Lumps of iron 
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There is every reason for believing that this cemetery was of 
much greater extent than the present explorations would lead us 
to suppose, for it has been ascertained, as a positive fact, from 
enquiries made of Mr. Haynes and of several of the men employed 
in these brickfields, that human bones and vessels of pottery have 
been exposed from time to time in the course of their excavations 
for clay; and Mr. Haynes has described to us a large circular 
hole, some three feet in depth, discovered at about the spot 
marked C on the plan, containing fragments of pottery and bones, 
and at the bottom of it a dark, unctuous-looking kind of clay: 
this hole or well had no doubt served as the crematorium of 
this burial-ground. At a meeting of our society, held Jan. 2, 
1877, the late Mr. Molyneux exhibited some horns of the red 
deer, and bones of the horse, sheep, and Bos dongifrons which he 
had found in a clay bed near Stapenhill, with fragments of British (?) 
and Roman pottery. These I find were discovered somewhere 
about the same time as the crematorium mentioned by Mr. 
Haynes, and in same locality. I think, therefore, we might approxi- 
mately estimate the extent of this cemetery as reaching from A on 
the north to F on the south, and from E on the east to B on the 
west, as shown on Plate II.; but it seems extremely probable 
that this was the burial-place of only one particular tribe or clan, 
and that other cemeteries of greater or less magnitude extended 
all along this elevated ridge, perhaps for miles; anyway, judging» 
from the numerous relics; Roman and Saxon, which have been 
found all round this district from time to time—and many of 
which are referred to in the works of Sir Tonman Mosley, Mr. 
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