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Find No. 6 consisted of an urn only, of medium size, and 
very coarse and rude in style (Plate V., Fig. 5), height 34 
inches, diameter 43 inches. 
Find No. 7 was a skeleton of a young person in a very 
bad state of preservation, facing east. Near it was a piece of 
linden wood, evidently roughly shaped with a knife into the 
form of a double wedge, and probably used as a fastening 
for a girdle or belt. 
Find No. 8 was an urn only, very rude and coarse in 
make ; height 8} inches. 
find No. 9 was the body of a child in a very bad state 
of preservation, lying east and west, head pointing towards the 
west. Accompanying this were a circular bronze buckle (Plate 
VII., Fig. 13) and four beads of terra cotta, very much dis- 
integrated and worn. With the beads was one of those small 
Roman copper coins of the Constantine period, pierced with 
a hole. It had obviously been worn suspended by a string 
from the neck along with the beads. On the obverse were the 
words, URBS ROMA; and on the reverse, the twins Romulus 
and Remus suckled by the wolf; date 327 a.p. 
find No. to was a large cinerary urn, ornamented with four 
tude and shallow circles, and a pattern showing a square divided 
into sixteen smaller squares (Plate VI., Fig. 10). Inside it 
were burnt human bones. Near this and towards the south- 
east was another large urn, 7ivd No. 11, ornamented with five 
_ tude and deep circular lines, also containing burnt human bones. 
_ Lying underneath the bones was a spindle whorl, or more pro- 
_bably an amulet, made of deer’s horn, and beautifully orna- 
mented on one side with a series of circles, each enclosing two 
smaller and concentric ones (Plate V., Fig. 6). 
Find No. 12 was the body of a man in the prime of life, 
lying full length on the back, the left leg was crossed over 
‘the right, the arms were folded, the right being crossed 
over the left, the head was much higher than the rest of the 
body, and was resting on a block of sandstone. No article 
of any kind accompanied this interment. 
