-M> ANGLO-SAXONS AND DANES. 



The body thus placed was covered by a grouting of lime, on 

 which may be seen the impressions of the cloth, and within which 

 many ornaments and other articles are found, as beads of glass 

 and red coral, bracelets of bronze, rings of gold, silver, bronze 

 and jet, and sandal nails of iron. 



The ashes of bodies which had been subjected to cremation 

 were sometimes placed in the earth with no urn or coffin, and 

 covered with tiles marked by the name of the legion a soldier's 

 grave. In other and more numerous cases, urns containing 

 fragments of bone are found with elegant glass phials, but 

 neither tile, stone, nor tumulus. In similar urns many bronze 

 tools, as celts, chisels, and gouges, have been found. These 

 circumstances are mentioned only by way of contrast to the 

 mound-burials of the Britons and Anglians, from the latter of 

 which they seem to differ the least. Roman burials have 

 been recognized by the sides of the road leading out of York 

 even to the distance of a mile ; and of stone coffins the number 

 discovered is very considerable*. 



CHAPTER X. 

 ANGLO-SAXONS AND DANES. 



THE interval of time which separates the withdrawal of the Ro- 

 mans from the arrival of the Saxons is not long, yet its exact 

 limits are not defined, nor can it be completely filled by the 

 facts and fictions of the Saxon triumph and British distress. 

 History retired with the Roman Legions, not to return with the 

 Roman Bishops. The retirement of the old masters was not so 



* See Wellheloved's Eburacum ; and his Descriptive Account of Anti- 

 quities in the Yorkshire Museum. 



