A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK 



before selling the gold cell-work. It was found about 1 8 3 5 by a ploughman who 

 stated that it had studs of precious stones or glass, red at the centre, and others 

 blue, while the small spaces [cloisons) were filled with green and other 



colours. In the British Museum is a somewhat 

 larger brooch of gold from Faversham, Kent, that 

 has likewise lost all its settings ; and both are 

 good examples of an English (or perhaps Jutish) 

 industry that flourished between 550 and 650 of 

 our era and is best represented in the Kentish 

 graves of that period. 



Another link with Kent or indication of 



early foreign trade is a jewelled brooch, found 



in Suffolk (frontispiece, fig. 3). It belongs to 



the ' radiated ' type more commonly found on 



Fig. J. — Gold Front of Jew- the Continent and assigned, on adequate grounds, 



ELLED Brooch, Sutton, near to the 5th century. Derived ultimately from a 



WooDBRiDGE (J) Gothlc model of the fourth century found in 



South Russia,^'' it is a good specimen of the 

 jeweller's art, and is engraved with linear patterns that are not definitely 

 Teutonic, but survivals from classical art. The knots round the head are 

 set with garnets, and along the bow and foot runs a strip of silver orna- 

 mented with niello in minute triangles. Of fifteen found in England six are 

 from Kent and the Isle of Wight, while the rest have been found sporadically 

 as far north as th*e East Riding, but mostly on the eastern side of England. 



For Anglian immigrants arriving by sea the Orwell was doubtless one 

 of the best approaches to the higher and drier ground of central Suffolk, and 

 Ipswich has recently produced a splendid series of their remains. During the 

 whole of 1906 burials were disturbed in the course of relief works for the 

 unemployed on land belonging to the corporation in the triangle formed by 

 the railway, Hadleigh Road, and London Road, on the western border of the 

 county-town. The slope on the south side of Hadleigh Road was removed, 

 and after four interments (possibly a larger number) had been destroyed by 

 the workmen, the task of supervision was undertaken by Miss Nina Layard, 

 who directed a gang of workmen a little in advance of the main body, and 

 thus discovered and examined about i6o burials in one or other part of 

 the ground. Full reports were prepared by Miss Layard for the Society 

 of Antiquaries of London " and the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and 

 Natural History " ; and the finds handed over to the town. The rich and 

 interesting collection, that might in other circumstances have been lost to 

 science, is now admirably exhibited in Christchurch Mansion, and throws 

 much light on the conditions prevailing in this part of the county in the 6th 

 century, for it is to that period that most of the objects recovered belong. 



In an area measuring roughly 400 ft. by 150 ft. inhumations were 

 frequent and only a few cinerary urns were found, but in the later stages of 

 the work this area had to be abandoned for a smaller space a little to the 



"* Arch. Journ. Ixv, 76. 



" Arch. Ix, 325-52, with map, illustrations, and three coloured plates ; ,see also Proc. Soc. Antij. xxi, 

 241, and further notes pp. 24.2-7. 



" Proceedings, xiii, J-19, including the s.ime coloured plates. 



