ANGLO-SAXON REMAINS 



who illustrated some of them in his Nenia Britannica* 1 The boss had five 

 rivets in the rim and wood on the under part, showing the material of the 

 shield. The interment had apparently been made in stiff marly soil, and 

 from the same range of grave-mounds was recovered a bead of spindle-whorl 

 form, made on the lathe from the epiphysis of some large animal (probably 

 the ox) and ornamented with the ring-and-dot pattern. Plain specimens of 

 the same material are known from such British sites as Glastonbury, but the 

 present example may have been worn like those of glass, crystal, or amber, 



BROOCHES, CLASP, AND NECKLET OF BEADS, FROM BEEBY 



frequently found in Anglo-Saxon graves. Nichols 43 was further informed 

 by Douglas that there were probably two graves on this site, one with the 

 spear and shield-boss, the other containing two iron hoops, 9 in. in diameter, 

 bronze rims, bracers, and rivets attached to a wooden bucket, of which the 

 diameter is given as 6 in., but it probably tapered towards the mouth. 



41 Published in 1793 : pp. 27, 88, pi. 7, figs. 2, 4 and pi. xxi, 9. 

 a Hist. ofLe'tc. iii, pi. 42, p. 289. 



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