XXXV. 



FUKTHER EESEAECHES IN AN ANGLO-SAXON 

 CEMETEEY AT FKILFOKD, WITH KEMARKS 

 ON THE NORTHERN LIMIT OF ANGLO- 

 SAXON CREMATION IN ENGLAND. 



The first discovery in the cemetery at Frilford, subsequent to 

 those already recorded in the ' Archseologia,' xlii. pp. 417-485 

 (Article xxxiv), was made on March 23, 1869, when a leaden coffin 

 was found, containing the bones of a young woman, with a toilet 

 comb ^ at the right of the back of her head. This brings the 

 number of leaden coffins found at Frilford up to five; one of them 

 has already been figured in ' Archaeologia,' xlii. pi. XXIV. figures 

 7 and 8. 



The second was the discovery of some fragments, which, when 

 fitted to the three fragments found in September, 1867, one of 

 which is figured in the ' Archseologia/ xlii. pi. XXIII. fig. 2, p. 423, 

 make up the larger portion of what is often called a ' holy- water 

 vessel.' The fragments of September, 1867, were to my eyes so 

 distinctly Saxon that I had one of them figured, and the unexpected 

 discovery of the remaining fragments enabled us to build up the 

 urn shown in the annexed woodcut. I imagine that a plough's 

 coulter had knocked out the first discovered fragments. No burnt 

 bones were found quite close to the urn, but one fragment was 

 found a little way off 2. 



This reconstructed vessel may be compared with vessels of some- 

 what similar shape, and possibly similar purpose, found in Eoman 



^ For difference between toilet and other combs, see Anderson, * Proc. Soc. Ant. 

 Scot.' June 10, 1872, p. 551, and woodcut in loco. 



2 The fragment, which with a triangular apex pointing upwards, occupies about 

 the middle point in the front upper border of the urn figured above, is the same 

 fragment which is figured with its apex pointing downwards, pi. XXIII. fig. 2, 

 ' Archaeologia,' xlii. 



