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while at the back (see fig. 4) both ends of the pin are surrounded with char- 

 acteristic animal shapes. It weighs about 6| ounces, and is the chief 

 treasure of the Mayer collection at Liverpool. With it was a gold 

 pendant of bracteate form with a star pattern, also two small spring 

 brooches of silver recalling 

 the La Tene type. These 

 were lying near the left 

 thigh with an iron girdle- 

 hanger or key. At the feet, 

 with an iron chainof twenty 

 links, and perhaps a casket, 

 was an earthenware vase of 

 unusual type with chevron 

 incisions on the shoulder, 

 and two bronze bowls on a 

 trivet, measuring i 3 inches 

 in diameter, and containing 

 the other which had three 

 small loops attached by discs 

 to the rim. A green glass 

 cup of a usual Kentish pat- 

 tern completed the furni- 

 ture' of the grave, which 

 must have been that of 

 some illustrious lady. 



Another woman's 

 grave contained two glass 

 vases,'' one on the right of 

 the skull, the other at the right hip ; a crystal sphere,' 1 1 inches in 

 diameter without the usual silver bands ; a pair of earrings with blue 

 glass beads, an amethyst bead and a silver hairpin.* Twelve amethyst 

 and as many as eighty-six glass beads (as pi. ii. figs. 6, 12, 13) were 

 found in another grave with gold and silver pendants, a pair of equal- 

 armed cross pendants of silver,^ a pin of the same metal, and toilet 

 articles. At the feet had been set a coffer containing an ivory comb, 

 bronze and ivory bracelets, a spindle-whorl, and among other items a 

 concha Veneris shell ; also three knife blades, with a slender sheath of 

 bronze and wood,° a pair of shears, an iron chain, and some indeterminate 

 metal objects.' 



One barrow that had escaped the notice of Faussett, but belonged 

 to a group close to the Canterbury and Dover road, which yielded the 

 most interesting relics in Inventorium Sepulchrale^ was opened by Thomas 

 Wright in 1 850. It contained a woman's burial, with beads of amethyst 



' 'Nen. Brit, plates x., xi. pp. 1,1-\1. 



2 Douglas illustrates several objects from this cemetery : l^en. Brit. pi. xxi. iigs. 6, 8 (gold pendants) ; 

 pi. xviii. figs. 2, 7, 8, 10, II (toilet articles, etc.) ; see also Akerman, Pag. Sax. pi. xxxi. (three combs). 



3 Inv. Sep. p. 42. * Ibid. p. 43. ' Nen. Brit. pi. xvi. fig. I. 

 • Inv. Sep. p. 68. ' Nen. Brit. pi. xvi. figs. 2, 3. 



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