ANGLO-SAXON REMAINS 
From the unburnt burials the brooches are the most interesting and 
instructive relics. ‘They appear to have been found even in the graves 
of men at Kempston,’ and were generally worn in pairs by the other 
sex. First must be mentioned two brooches which are undoubtedly 
Civzrary Urns From Cemetery, Kempston. 
(4 size) 
earlier than the bulk of the collection, and have been referred by Dr. 
Bernhard Salin to the first half of the fifth century.” The claws at the 
head of one of these (see fig.) are survivals of the fastenings by which 
the long spiral spring of the pin was secured, and the facetting of the 
lower part is evidently derived from brooches and other ornaments of the 
Ripenseumeenens, 
pean 
) 5 
Bronze Broocu, Kempston. Encravep Bronze Broocu, Kempston. 
late Roman period, that is prior to the fall of the western empire in 
the middle of the fifth century. The second brooch (see fig.) is of 
a peculiar form hardly represented in this country, only two other speci- 
mens being published,’ both from Cambridgeshire. Behind the broad 
1 Roach Smith, Co//. Antig. vi. 169, 171. 
? Kongl. Vitterbets Historie och Antigquitets Akademiens Mdnadsblad (1894), pp. 23, 29- 
3 Op. cit. fig. 9, from Haslingfield ; and Hon. R. C. Neville, Saxon Obsequies, pl. 2, from grave 
35 at Little Wilbraham. 
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