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sites have already been mentioned, but there are essential points of difference 

 between the Ipswich cemetery and others in East Angha that have yet to be 

 explained. The specimens present on one site and absent on another are, 

 however, generally of native manufacture, and point rather to isolation in 

 East Anglia than to immigration from different localities on the Continent. 

 This is an important point, for the general uniformity of East Anglian burial 

 grounds suggests a common origin for the population of the 6th century, 

 different from that of the Saxon occupants of Essex and the Thames valley, 

 though not far removed from that of the midland Angles. 



The county town has also produced two jugs of blackish pottery that, 

 like some other antiquities in the county, seem to be of Prankish origin. 

 That found in Carr Street has a wide mouth with an insignificant spout and 

 diminutive handle, and is 6| in. high, while the Princes Street specimen is 

 more like an ordinary jug with larger handle and spout. They are both in 

 the museum at Christchurch Park, and may be compared with others from 

 Kent " in Maidstone and Liverpool Museums. 



In the Gipping valley deposits showing occupation in the 6th century 

 have been discovered. A cinerary urn from Bramford, similar to that on 

 plate iii, fig. 3, and of somewhat unusual form, with a cheveron pattern filled 

 with stamps, is now in the Ipswich collection, as is also a fine pair of long 

 brooches (pi. v), 5Jin. long, evidently from a burial at Akenham Hall; 

 while at Norwich is another brooch of the same variety from Coddenham, 

 3 miles farther up the valley. 



At Badley, near Needham Market, during the construction of the rail- 

 way, was found a bronze bowl that has unfortunately disappeared. According 

 to a drawing published in the Reliquary **' it had two escutcheons of beaten 

 form with rings for suspending chains and was furnished with a cover, while 

 an enamelled disc ornamented the inside at the bottom. It was associated 

 with another bronze bowl with open-work foot^' of a type common in Kent 

 and sometimes found on the Continent, obviously dating from the 6th or 7th 

 century. The Badley specimen in all probability served the same unknown 

 purpose as those with three escutcheons attached to the outside below the 

 moulded rim to hold the chains, and the type is well represented at Milden- 

 hall (p. 346). 



Interments in the valley of the Waveney show that there were early 

 Anglo-Saxon settlements on what is now the boundary between Norfolk and 

 Suffolk. North of that line burials are recorded at Stockton, Broom, and 

 Earsham near Bungay, and on the Suffolk side urns (presumably cinerary) 

 have been found at Stow Park,'" and a perfect cup of pale green glass," also 

 in the neighbourhood of Bungay. The latter (frontispiece, fig. 5) is now in 

 the British Museum and doubtless came from a burial, as it is difficult to 

 conceive that so fragile a relic could have survived unless carefully deposited 

 and protected in the earth. It is 5 in. in height, and has a spiral thread 

 round the neck and applied threads springing from the base in the form of 

 petals, just as on the specimen found at Ipswich and presented to the museum 



" One from Sarre is figured in V.C.H. Kent, i, 359. 



" ReFijuary and Illustrated Archaeologist (1900), vi, 243 ; Arch. Ivi, 48. 



" V.C.H. Kent, \, 372, fig. 19. '» A'or/ Arch, iv, 315. 



" Figured in colour by Akerman, Pagan Saxondom, pi. xxv, fig. I. 



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