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CEMETERY AT FRILFORD. 651 



With sMeton xxiv of Feb. 21, 1868, an old woman, of the elongated oval Homano- 



British or Celtic type, five coins were found, of which one belonged to Valens, 



and another to Constans I. 

 With skull ix of April i, 1868, a coin was found, which is lost. 

 With skeleton iv Jan. 9, 1868, of a very old woman, of small cylindrocephalic type, 



three coins were found, which could not be identified. 

 In the grave (but towards the lower end of it, whither it may have found its way 



accidentally) of the Anglo-Saxon girl No. ix of Sept. 25, 1868, a Byzantine 



fourth-century Decentius. 

 In the Roman rubbish-heap, examined Sept. 24, 1868, a coin was found, one of the 



many imitated from Koman originals in fifth and sixth centuries. Very common 



in England. 

 With the skeleton No. xviii of Sept. 28, 1868, a coin was sent, Postumus (?). 



II. Relics. 



Arms and ornaments. Lower jaws iv of April and May, 1867. Reported to have 



been found with an umbo No. v. 

 Skeleton No. x ii of May, 67. Anglo-Saxon woman. Was found with fibulae and 



beads. 

 Skeleton No. v of March 17, 1868. Anglo-Saxon woman. Was found with fibulae, 



beads, and pin. 

 Skeleton No. ii of April i, 1868. Anglo-Saxon woman. Was found with fibulae of 



Midland counties type, with scoops and pickers on ring, and with a knife. But 



see 'Further Kesearches, Long Wittenham,' ' Archaeologia,' xxxix. PI. XI. 



p. 142. 

 Skeleton No. iv of Sept. 1867. Anglo-Saxon man. Was found with an umbo and a 



spear-head. 

 Skeleton No. xviii of Feb. 8, 1868. Anglo-Saxon man. Was found with an umbo, a 



spear-head, a knife, and some Roman tiles set round his grave. 

 Skeleton No. i of April i, 1868. Was found with an umbo, a spear-head with a 



central raised ridge, a buckle, and a knife. 

 Skeleton No. v. of a child, April i, 1868. Was found with two beads, not spherical, 



and therefore probably Anglo-Saxon. 

 Skeleton No. ix of Sept. 25, 1868. Anglo-Saxon girl. Was found with two fibulae. 



A coin was also found towards the lower end of her grave, but may have fallen 



or worked its way into the grave without any intention on the part of the burying 



persons. The coin was a fourth-century Byzantine coin of Decentius. 

 Skeleton No. xviii of Sept. 28, 1868. Anglo-Saxon man. Was found with the face 



downwards, and with two pieces of iron, probably remnants of a crushed umbo, a 



knife, and a coin, which was considered as probably of Postumus. 



III. Urns. 



f Plain urn, iv of Jan. 25, 1867, containing bones 

 . 1 of a child, 2 to 3 years old. 



1. Anglo-Saxon 1 i>a«emerfwrw, xvii of May, 1867, containing bones 



' of child before second set of teeth. 



