Bronzl liiAD OF Faun, High Dow 



tius II, who reigned 337-361. 

 the head of a Faun (see fig.). 



A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



ment for a girdle (fig. 3), which is strangely unlike Saxon work and 

 bears a close resemblance to a specimen from Bishopstone, Bucks. 

 These were either imported from the Continent or were the work 



of some Romanized craftsmen, 

 whose continued presence can 

 hardly be inferred from the few 

 articles of Roman character from 

 the site. Besides the New Forest 

 vase and iron brooches already 

 mentioned, there were several 

 melon-shaped beads, also single 

 coins of Domitian (much worn 

 and pierced), of Fausta (struck at 

 Treves about 329 and also pierced 

 for suspension), and of Constan- 

 With this last was a barbaric copy of 

 The coins only show that the burials 

 were later than the middle of the 4th century, and that Roman coins 

 had become rare enough to be made into pendent ornaments.^ 



A few square-headed brooches (fig. 5) were found in pairs, and 

 can be readily assigned to a well-defined class common in Kent and the 

 Isle of Wight, the cruciform design on the foot having no special sig- 

 nificance but being a constant feature. Other brooches from High 

 Down are difficult to classify, but the more elaborate are akin to a rare 

 Kentish type of which the best known example is from Sarre, Kent, 

 and is now in the British Museum. The square form (fig. 7) is alto- 

 gether unusual, and the ornamentation 

 has none of the Saxon characteristics. 

 One example of the penannular brooch 

 seems of somewhat later date, and be- 

 longs to a small series found in various 

 parts of England,WaIes, and Ireland, per- 

 haps of the early Viking period. One 

 without a pin was found in an Anglo- 

 Saxon cemetery at Bifrons,^ near Canter- 

 bury, and the pattern may be a remini- 

 scence of the small penannular brooch 

 of Roman times. In any case they appear 

 out of place in south-east England, and 

 were probably worn by the pirates 

 who frequented St. George's Channel.* 



More than one problem arising from the discoveries at High Down must 

 here be left unnoticed, but for our present purpose it is essential to remark 



» V.C.H. Bucks, i. 199. 



a Examples from East Shefford, Berks, are in the National Collection. 

 3 Arch. Cant. vol. x. p. 303. 



* Two in the British Museum are from Abingdon (^.C.//. 5^r*/, i.) and Dublin; other are 

 known from Derbyshire, Anglesey and Kent, as well as from the Roman site of Caerwent, Mon. 



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Ring-Brooch, High Down Cemetery. {\) 



