Fig. 10 



Gilt Bronze Buckie, Mitchili's 

 Hill, Icklingham (^) 



ANGLO-SAXON REMAINS 



There were evident traces of burials on Mitchell's Hill, Icklingham, and 

 possibly another case of horse-interment,'^ as at Warren Hill. The relics were 

 mostly in Sir John Evans' collection, and comprised a square-headed brooch set 

 with garnets in the Jutish style, two large and elaborate cruciform specimens, 

 two clasps with woollen fabric attached, a buckle that may be of Prankish 

 manufacture, a Roman spoon, girdle-hangers, tweezers, and among other 

 brooches a pair of ' horned ' specimens of local 

 type," with curved projections from the upper 

 angles of the square head-plate, and a circular 

 brooch with an embossed plate applied to the 

 front as at Kempston, Bedford. 



In the Bury Museum a richly gilt buckle 

 (fig. lo) from the site deserves special mention, 

 as the pattern is of rare occurrence in England. 

 The edges of the loop are bevelled, and the 

 animal engraving executed not on the face of 

 the loop, but on the sloping sides, suggesting a 

 connexion with Sweden," where the same pecu- 

 liarity occurs on buckles of the 5th century. 

 Another gilt buckle, from Icklingham, is illus- 

 trated in colours (fig. 2 on frontispiece), and is now in the British Museum. 

 The panel is filled with deeply engraved animal pattern in the style character- 

 istic of the 6th century, when the principles of anatomy were disregarded in 

 order to fill a given space. 



A perforated axe-head of iron found at Undley and now in Mr. Fen- 

 ton's possession has a Prankish appearance, and resembles one published from 

 Icklingham.*^ Two others, from Ipswich, are in the national collection, one 



(fig. 11) belongs to a type fairly com- 

 mon in Prance, but also found in the 

 Thames, while the other is in poor 

 condition, and has no expansion of 

 the cutting edge. These weapons are 

 rarely found in England, but are known 

 from the Isle of Wight, London, and 

 Croydon, "" and by comparison with con- 

 tinental specimens may be assigned to 

 the sixth century. 



Two iron spear-heads found in 1 8 1 3 

 in a barrow at Barrow Bottom," about 

 five miles due west of Bury, are sufficient 

 evidence of one or two Anglo-Saxon 

 burials here, whether the barrow was 

 raised at that time or (as is more prob- 

 able) had existed since the Bronze Age, 

 Fig. II.— Iron Axe-head, Ipswich (^) a thousand or more years before. At 



" Bury and W. Suff. Pnc. vi, 7 1 . 



" One from Farndish, figured in V.C.H. Bedi. i, 190 ; others from Soham and Barrington, Cambs., and 

 Kenninghall, Norfolk. 



" Salin, Die altgermanische Thienrnamenlik, 164, fig. 390. " Akerman, Pagan Saxondom, pi. xxiii, fig. 3. 



'^ y-C.H. Surr. i, 260. S9 Bury and W. Suff. Proc. ii, 207. 



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