A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK 



century in south Sweden. Besides pi. ii, fig. i, which retains a rivet on the 

 bow probably for the purpose of attaching a disc, two other specimens have 

 been found in the county, at Finningham and Mildenhall (fig. 13), and one 

 just over the Norfolk border at Brooke, midway between Norwich and 

 Bungay. A similar brooch from Bury St. Edmunds in Sir John Evans' col- 

 lection has a rivet hole in the bow, apparently for attaching a disc, now lost. 



Another variety of the square-headed brooch (pi. ii, fig. i) shows 

 a curious blend of styles, which must be subsequent to the middle of the 

 6th century, for the wings below the bow do not seem to have been intro- 

 duced earlier. In outline it is a ' long ' brooch without the customary knobs, 

 but with circular extensions at the angles of the head and a spreading foot of 

 degenerate form ; but instead of the severe decoration characteristic of the 

 ' long or cruciform ' brooch of Scandinavia, there appears on this specimen 

 the animal-ornament of the Anglo-Saxon craftsmen that is seen more 

 commonly on square-headed and saucer brooches. 



The flat annular brooches of bronze had usually pins of iron (mostly 

 perished), but the brooch-types at Ipswich are strangely limited. There 

 were no long or cruciform specimens of the ordinary kind found in the 

 cemetery, none of the smaller kind with square or trefoil heads, nor any 

 bracelet-clasps'* so common in the west of the county. On the other hand, 

 there are two remarkable circular brooches (pi. ii, figs. 2, 3) that must be 

 of Kentish origin. They belong to what may be called the ' keystone ' 

 type," but the garnet slabs do not exactly conform to the regulation pattern, 

 that of the centre stone of an arch. They were found in separate graves, 

 and both had central studs of some substance that is well preserved in one 

 case and has the appearance of ivory, like one from Little Wilbraham, Cam- 

 bridgeshire, published by the Hon. R. C. Neville.'* 



Another remarkable find in the Ipswich cemetery was a bronze buckle 

 of Prankish manufacture (pi. ii, fig. 5), almost unexampled in this country, 

 but common in certain parts of France," where they are attributed, at the 

 earliest, to the 7th century. A similar specimen was found at Bellevue near 

 Lympne (Kent),'* and the three studs, now missing from the Ipswich speci- 

 men, are there seen in position. A collar of silver wire"' carrying a bead is 

 a novelty for England, but one has since been found at Desborough, Northants. 



Glass from this cemetery is particularly good, one vase much resembling 

 that illustrated from Bungay, but having threads like stamens added to the 

 petals round the base. Examples of pale green and amber-coloured cups are 

 also given on the coloured plate (figs. 6, 7), the types being usual and well 

 represented in Kentish finds. 



The peculiar iron adze, the strike-a-light, earrings, chatelaines or girdle- 

 hangers, and iron-hooped buckets from Ipswich all find parallels in the Little 

 Wilbraham cemetery, which lies between Newmarket and Cambridge, about 

 six miles from the Suffolk border, and other specimens common to the two 



" These were closely connected with ' long ' brooches at Little Wilbraham, Cambs. 

 " y.C.H. Kent, i, pi. i, fig. 4 (opp. p. 342) ; for other specimens see de Baye, Industrial Arts of the 

 Anglo-Saxons, pi. x, figs. 3, 6, 7. 



" Saxon Obsequies, pi. 3, grave 172. 



" B. Flavy, Arts industriels de k Gaule, album, plates xlviii, xlii ; Bouhngei, Mobilierftneraire, text of pi. 42. 



•* Roach Smith, Richborough, Recuher, and Lym-.e, 264. 



•^ Suff. Inst. Arch. Proc. xiii, pi. iv, fig. 5, p. 6. 



