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cemeteries, for instance, at Hardham, Sussex, as figured by Pro- 

 fessor W. Boyd Dawkins ^. But urns more similar still have been 

 found in many Teutonic cemeteries in England, as well as in France 

 and Germany. 



May 3, 1870. — An old Anglo-Saxon woman, with tweezers 2, 

 knife, metallic button, and small metallic ornament at head of 

 humerus ; large stones set by the sides of the graves, as described 

 in ' Archseologia/ 1. c. p. 438 ; but no nails. Depth of grave 2 feet 

 6 in., direction north-west to south-east. Abundance of charcoal in 

 the grave ; arms extended, patellse in situ. Tibiae platycnemic. 



Anglo-Saxon urn, Frilford. Scale ^ linear. 



May 3, 1870. — Fragment giving about three-sevenths of the 

 circumference of an Anglo-Saxon ' holy- water vessel,' or, perhaps, 

 rather of a rudimentary representation of cremation urn ; found 

 near the bones of a young person. This vessel has the characteristic 

 German angular projection round its body, the vandyking and the 

 stamped pattern, &c., which we are familiar with in urns of larger 

 size intended for the reception of burnt bones. Its small size, 

 as well as the fact that many such vessels have been found with 

 buried bodies and without any bony contents, shows that this 



* 'Sussex Archaeological Collections,' vol. xvi. p. 58. 



^ For figures of similar tweezers, see Lindenschmifc, ' Alterthiimer,' Bd. ii. Hft. v. 

 Taf. vi, where they are said to be found usually in men's graves, but sometimes in 

 women's. Neville, 'Saxon Obsequies,' pi.. II; Cochet, 'Normandie Souterraine,' p. 219, 

 pi. VII. fig. 35. 



