A HISTORY OF DERBYSHIRE 



chain work, keys and other objects, ' the whole comprising the girdle 

 and chatelaine with appendages of a Saxon lady.' The iron objects 

 showed the imprint of fine linen and coarse flannel. With a similar 

 interment at Stand-low 1 were two knives (one in a sheath), and other 

 articles which may have been a chatelaine, all of iron, two rings or 

 buckles, and a cylindrical box with a hinged lid, of bronze, and a silver 

 needle ; while where the neck had been was a necklace consisting of 

 eleven beads of glass of various shapes, and one formed of a spiral of 

 silver wire. 



At Cow-low near Buxton, 5 two gold pins with settings of ruby 

 glass and linked together by a gold chain must have formed part of 

 the buried lady's head-dress, for they were found near her skull, and 

 close by were the remains of a wooden box, with bronze hinges and 

 hasp, and fastened by an iron padlock. This box contained a few 

 cherished treasures a small green glass basin, an ivory comb, and a necklace 

 consisting of eight silver pendants, two spiral beads of electrum and a 

 central pensile ornament of variegated porcelain set in silver, etc. More 

 elaborate still was a necklace consisting of fourteen pendants in pure 

 gold, eleven of which were enriched with brilliant garnets on a chequered 

 foil, which was found with a skeleton at Galley-low or Callidge-low 

 near Brassington in 1 843." Perhaps the finest example of the goldsmith's 

 art of the period, in Derbyshire, was a circular gold brooch ornamented 

 with filigree work and red stones in compartments over chequered foil, 

 found in the barrow known as White-low near Winster, already referred 

 to, 4 from which were also obtained a looped cross of pure gold of 

 similar workmanship, a silver bracelet, several beads, two glass vessels 

 and two large urns. Another fine example of a brooch, but of some- 

 what later date and probably of Irish make, now preserved in the 

 British Museum, may be mentioned here. It was found in 1862 at 

 Bonsall near Matlock. It is of bronze, and the ring measures 3^ inches 

 at its greatest diameter, and the acus is 6^ inches long. It was origin- 

 ally set with amber or paste and has been richly gilt and enamelled, 

 the interlaced ornaments being elaborately formed. The head of the 

 acus is finely ornamented, and like the ring has been set with studs. 

 It is described and figured by Mr. Jewitt in Grave Mounds and their 

 Contents? 



An instructive barrow of the period was opened at Bruncliff 

 near Hartington in 1847. Here, in the rock-grave, was an extended 

 skeleton, with a knife and a small pitcher at its side. The vessel was of 

 hard wheel-made red earthenware with a trefoil-shaped mouth, appar- 

 ently copied from a Roman original. In the mound, which was of earth 

 as usual, and immediately above the grave, were the calcined remains of 

 a young horse amidst much charcoal, a rare occurrence in this country.* 



1 Vestiges, p. 74. * Ibid. p. 93. 



3 Ibid. p. 37 ; Arch. Album, p. 205 ; Akerman's Pagan SaxonJom, pi. xl. fig. 4. 



* Vestiges, p. 19 ; Arch. iii. 274 ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. xiii. 226. 



8 pp. 274, 275 ; see also the Reliquary, v. 65, pi. viii. 



8 Vestiges, p. 101. 



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