172 REPORT ON THE STAPENHILL EXPLORATIONS. 
PART II. 
THE BEARING OF THE STAPENHILL DISCOVERIES ON OUR 
KNOWLEDGE OF PaGAN ENGLISH BURIALS. 
As I mentioned in the introductory note to this paper, it was 
thought advisable, for many reasons, that the Report itself of the 
Stapenhill Explorations should be substantially as exact a descrip- 
tion as possible of the several bodies which were discovered, and 
the articles accompanying them, as well as a record of the facts 
observed, as appertaining to each particular ‘‘ Find.” But in 
order that this Report may fulfil a greater, and perhaps more 
instructive, purpose than a mere record of facts, in order rather 
that the interest of it to the members of our own, as well as other 
Societies, may be further enhanced, and that we may be able to 
appreciate to the full extent the teachings of such a record, I have 
attempted in the pages following to give as briefly as possible a 
description of the Pagan English, or Anglo-Saxon, burial places, 
and of their contents generally ; and for much information on 
such a subject 1 am indebted to the following works :— 
AUTHOR. WORK. 
Akermann ... ... Archzeological Index to Remains of Anti- 
quity. 
a - ... Remains of Pagan Saxondom. 
Bateman... ... Ten Years’ Diggings. 
n rh ... Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire. 
Birch sh ... Ancient Pottery. 
Boyd Dawkins ... Cave Hunting. 
55 isi ... Early Man in Britain. 
Borlase ie ... Nenia Corumbie. 
Davis re ... Ancient British Barrows. 
\ es ... Crania Britannica, 
Douglas ges ... Nenia Britannica. 
Evans ee ... Flint Chips. 
