ANGLO-SAXON REMAINS 



Graves of the other sex were as usual more productive, though 

 jewellery was scarce, and the most frequent article was the chatelaine or 

 girdle-hanger, that sometimes took the form of a key. Coffers had 

 been placed in nine graves at the feet, but usually only the iron mounts 

 and hinges remained ; on the other hand, a bronze cyhndrical thread- 

 box ' was in good condition, with chains and lid complete, containing 

 small silken strings of two sizes, some raw silk, wool and short hair, as 

 well as some seeds which had apparently been strung on a necklace. 

 Six or seven spindle-whorls (not recognized as such at the time), two 

 combs and six pairs of shears all came from women's graves, while amethyst 

 beads occurred in seven. Several earrings were found, and one silver 

 brooch (pi. i. fig. i) was jewelled in a three-edged star, with pearl bosses 

 and filigree ground.^ One grave contained a gold circular pendant ' 

 with a cruciform corded design and garnet settings ; another pendant 

 with coloured glass mosaic, and an oval pair with glass centres of a 

 corded lattice pattern,* as well as amethysts and garnets set in gold for a 

 necklace.^ In the same grave were two gold coins" of the Merovingian 

 series, struck at Verdun and Marsal in France, one being mounted as a 

 pendant. In two other graves were found circular pendants of gold 

 with simple cruciform design in raised dots ; ' and near the neck of 

 another female skeleton were two silver pendants, one of pointed oval 

 shape with a most unusual floral design,^ and the other simply embossed 

 and punctured with a cruciform design. Five glass vases or cups were 

 recovered from graves of either sex, and two wooden cups of extra- 

 ordinary form,° one much patched, were found near the head of what 

 seemed to be a woman's grave. 



Having now gone over the country served by the Roman road to 

 Dover, we may turn to a less productive area between Canterbury and Deal. 

 Eastry village is on rising ground 2| miles from Sandwich and 12 from 

 Canterbury, and on the line of another Roman road between Woodnes- 

 borough and Dover. In the triangular area between the Lynch, the 

 Five Bells Inn and Buttsole Pond a number of burials were 

 discovered in 1792, which must, from the objects associated with them, 

 be assigned to Anglo-Saxon times." Several graves lying close together 

 in parallel rows from east to west, east of the highway from the cross 

 to Buttsole, contained skeletons, brooches, beads, knives, shield-bosses, 

 and especially several green glass vessels with hollow lobes. The 

 mounds had been previously levelled by the plough, but the cemetery 

 was thought to have extended as far as the Cross. The only two 

 brooches were of Jutish types — small jewelled square-headed, and round- 

 headed with triangular foot. The urns are rudely fashioned, about 



> Nen. Brit. pi. xviii. fig. i. = Inv. Sep. pi. ii. fig. 6. 



3 Nen. Brit. p. 67 (centre). « Ibid. pi. xxi. figs. 2, 7. 



^ Inv. Sep. pi. xi. figs. I, 3 : Coll. Ant. i. pi. vi. figs. 7, 8. 



« Nen. Brit. pi. xxii. figs. 8-1 1. ' Ibid. pi. xxi. fig. 3. 



8 Inv. Sep. p. 115. 9 Ibid. p. I13. 



»" They were considered Roman by the discoverer, Mr. Boteler, whose MS. is quoted by Harris in 

 Hasted's Hist, of Kent, 8vo, vol. x. p. loi, and by W. F. Shaw, Liber Eastriae ; Memorials of Eastry, 

 p. 3. The glass, two urns, girdle-hanger, beads and brooches are illustrated on his plates. 



