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CEMETERY AT FRILFORD. 599 



in it of Hengist and that of Augustine. The legend which makes 

 Hengist land in Thanet and be buried at Conisborough, in South 

 Yorkshire, tells obviously in the same direction, but it is always 

 well to strengthen a conclusion based on the interpretation of such 

 a history as this by evidence drawn from actual, tangible, and 

 verifiable facts. And it is worth while, consequently, to put on 

 record here certain ' finds ' of Anglo-Saxon urns which have been 

 made subsequently to, or, for other reasons, have not been enumer- 

 ated among those already referred to. In the year 1859 five urns 

 of the Anglo-Saxon type, which are now to be seen in the museum 

 of the Philosophical Society in York, were found by F. W. Calvert, 

 Esq., in his garden, which is about half-a-mile outside of Mickle- 

 gate Bar on the right side of the road from York to Tadcaster. 

 Several Roman urns and sarcophagi were found at the same time and 

 place, the Anglo-Saxons having in this, as in so many other 

 Roman stations, used the cemeteries of their predecessors. An urn 

 with an inscription, which I have not seen, was found at the same 

 time. Five other undoubtedly Anglo-Saxon urns are mentioned in 

 ' The Descriptive Account of the Antiquities ' of this Museum (p. 95, 

 n. 34), as being found in tumuli on the Wolds. An urn ^ as in- 

 dubitably Anglo-Saxon has been discovered at Kempston, in Bed- 

 fordshire, for a sight of which I am indebted to the kindness of 

 Canon Greenwell of Durham. Lastly, in the ' Illustrated London 

 News ' of Jan. 25, 1 868, Supplement, p. 93, some excellent figures 

 of several urns found by Dr. Massey of Melbourne, at King's New- 

 ton in Derbyshire, may be seen; and though I have not as yet 

 had an opportunity of personally examining these specimens, I ap- 

 prehend they will be recognised as belonging to the same class as 

 the North German urns of the ' Horae Ferales ; ' the South Jutland 

 or Slesvig urns figured by Engelhardt, loc. cit. and plates 14 and 

 17 ; and those from the sixteen English counties above enumerated. 

 If, as Mr. Kemble has said, ' wherever Christianity set foot crema- 

 tion was to cease 2,' we may be doubly sure that wheresoever 

 cremation was practised in a country which had been previously 

 Christian, Christianity had for the time become extinct. Of the 



were subjected by the Saxons may be found in 'Ammianus Marcellinus,' xxvi. 4, 

 xxviii. 2. 



* See 'Collectanea Antiqua,' iv. 161, vi. 166, 201 seqq. 



^ 'Horae Ferales/ p. 95. 



