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markedly on comparing the urns of Finds 1, to, and 11, with 
those of 4 and 26. 
In studying the contents of Pagan English graves, as described 
by various observers, we are most forcibly struck with one very 
prominent feature more or less common to most of these burial- 
places, viz., the pre-eminently distinctive character given to one 
particular grave or barrow above all the others in the same burial- 
place. At Stapenhill, the person buried in grave No. 4 must 
have been much superior to all the others who have been interred 
here, for in no other grave have so many, or such various articles 
been found. The burial urn or drinking cup, for instance, was 
fashioned in a most artistic manner, and had, evidently, had great 
care bestowed upon its manufacture ; much finer clay was used, 
and the decoration of it was of the highest type—projecting bosses 
combined with indented vertical and horizontal lines. 
Not only is this particular urn superior to all the others found 
_ there, but it belongs to a class of pottery which although com- 
_ paratively rare in this country, being found only at Girton College, 
Little Wilbraham, and one or two other localities, is common 
_ enough in some parts of North Germany, particularly at Stade- 
on-the-Elbe ; hence it seems reasonable enough to conclude either 
that these tribes, whose remains have been found at Stapenhill 
and other places in England just mentioned, have come, origin- 
ally, from one of these districts in North Germany, or that those 
‘particular urns were brought from Germany for burial in the 
respective graves. 
In addition to the urn, this grave was also marked by the 
presence of several amber beads and one garnet, also by two 
fibule of the cruciform pattern, instead of one, as is usually 
the case. Again, just as at Stapenhill, we find that at Stow- 
ting and Fairford in Kent, and at Little Wilbraham in Cam- 
bridgeshire, one or two graves, and those the graves of females, 
were particularly distinguished by the richness and number of 
the articles found in these graves, as compared with those 
found in any of the other graves in these cemeteries ; indeed, 
‘the contents of grave No. 2 at Stowting, and of grave No. 9 
