CEMETERY AT FRILFORD. 647 



viii. Pottery of very many patterns and degrees of fineness, from very fair and fine 

 Samian down to very coarse ware. Some of both bestudded interiorly with 

 particles of silex ; some with pattern very like that of the Anglo-Saxon urn. 

 See Bruce, 'Roman Wall,' p. 438 ; A. Corbet's * Uriconium,' p. 63. 



September 25, 1868. 



ix'. Anglo-Saxon girl, with two plain bronze fibulae, in a grave from 18 in. to 24 in. 

 deep, lying over Romano-British woman (xvii^ of Sept. 26, infra p. 648). The 

 skeleton's upper half ran from W.N.W. to E.S.E. ; but the lower half of the body 

 was twisted at an obtuse angle to the upper half, and lay from N.N.E. to S.S.E. 

 This distortion probably accounts for the displacement of one of the fibulae from 

 the right shoulders on to the manubrium sterni. Towards the lower end of this 

 grave a beautiful coin was found, Byzantine, 4th century. Decentius. Many 

 bones brought of a child of 9 aet. For the view that men had only one fibula 

 and women two, see L'Abbd Cochet, * Tombeau de Childeric,' ^d. 2^^. 1859, 

 p. 228. Can this distorted position correspond to the ' contraction from the hips' 

 described by Canon Greenwell, at Kirby-under-Dale, Times, 1841 ? 



x'^. Skeleton of a child, 12 to 14 months, from a grave running from W.N.W. head to 

 E.S.E. foot. The depth of skeleton was 23 in. 



xi'^. Skeleton of child, 6 to 7, found lying immediately above xii* in a grave with 

 bearings W. for head, E. for feet. There was a laige stone at its head, and in 

 the grave were three pieces of Roman pottery, one beautifully patterned, and a 

 horse's tooth. First true molar just coming into place. Could this child have 

 been a Christian Anglo-Saxon ? 



xii*. Skeleton of adult male, probably 25 to 30 aet., lying underneath preceding 

 skeleton, head at W.N.W., feet at E.S.E. Femur, 19.2 in.; humerus, 13.7 in. 

 Globose Romano-British type. Stature, 5 ft. 10 in. 



September 26, 1868. 



xiii^ Skeleton of adult woman. Femur, 16 in.; stature, 5 ft. In a grave running 

 from W.N.W. by N.W. to E.S.E. by S.E., its depth being 35 in. to stone which 

 was under the back of her head. The vertex of the head was horizontal, the 

 frontal norma looking E.S.E. and the vertebrae of the neck being underneath the 

 base of the skull. The head of the humerus was 2 in. from the skull. No relics 

 nor traces of nails in this grave. Possibly a coffinless one. Elongated type. A 

 number of shards were with this skeleton, but I think it may have been an 

 Anglo-Saxon woman, such as No x of March 17, 1868. 



xiv^. Skeleton of young man. Femur, 17.6 in.; stature, 5 ft. 4.4 in. The skull lay on 

 its right side, in a grave running from W.N.W. to E.S.E. of 36 in. deep, without 

 pottery or nails. Elongated British type. 



xv^. Skeleton of old man. Femur, 17.19 in.; stature, 5 ft. 7.6 in. From a grave 

 running from W.N.W. to E.S.E. 32 in. to top of skull, which was lying on its 

 right side, not raised. The lower jaw a little on one side, not, however, so much 

 as the head. A stone 9 in. long, 5 in. across, and 3| thick, was so close to the 

 forehead as to render it difficult to think a coffin could have been present. 

 Elongated British type. Very fine skull, nearly of same size as the largest skull 

 of the Dinnington series. See ' Journal of Anatomy and Physiology,' vol. iii. 

 p. 253, 1868, also Article xiii, p. 160. 



xvi*. Skeleton of old man. Femur, 16-3 in.; stature, 5 ft. i| in. From grave of 

 same direction and depth as others ; no nails, but some fragments of pottery and 

 ' marks of burnings.' Elongated British type. 



