ANGLO-SAXON REMAINS 
no handles or any traces of them, unlike another well known class 
chiefly found in Kent with a pair of drop handles, or a third kind, found 
in various parts of the country, that had three hooks for suspension 
attached by means of enamelled discs to the side just below the moulded 
rim. 
Discoveries of Anglo-Saxon burials have been made in Toddington 
parish on several occasions, but all on Sheepwalk Hill. In 1861 a skele- 
ton was found close to a gravel pit there, but the only object associated 
with it was a bronze spiral finger-ring which was presented to the Society 
of Antiquaries by Major Cooper Cooper, from whose reports to the 
society’ the following account is compiled. At the close of 1883 the 
ground was opened about roo yards distant, almost in a direct line be- 
tween Toddington and Harlington churches, one mile from the former, 
half a mile from the latter, and one mile north of Foxborough Hill, the 
site of a Romano-British cemetery. 
On a spot where a skeleton had been found seven years before, 
another was discovered lying on a bed of concrete 4—6 inches thick, and 
not less than g feet square. It was nearly perfect and lay face downwards, 
the accompanying spearhead and knife of iron determining the sex. 
Close by was a third skeleton lying at right angles to the last and with 
the head to the south-east. On the shoulder were two bronze brooches’ 
of the small square-headed variety, similar to many found at Kempston 
(as fig. 4). They are of very frequent occurrence, and do not seem to 
have been confined to any particular locality. A year later bones that 
had been previously disturbed were 
found 5 yards off, and on a lower 
level, 3 feet from the surface, the 
skeleton of a woman with the head 
to the north-west. Below the waist 
lay an iron knife, and an iron 
object which seems to have been a 
‘girdle-hanger,’ or chatelaine, with 
holes for attaching a bag of some 
kind by means of thread. At the 
head was a small urn (see fig.) 
rightly described as of Merovingian Maxdancien: Many “Tomuennt: 
type, with a white incrustation on (¥ size) 
the inside. Six other skeletons were 
found here without any article of note, but in a woman’s grave about 
3 feet from the surface, with the head to the south, was a circular 
brooch 1% inches in diameter (apparently of the ‘ applied’ variety) laid 
upon the chest, with beads of jet and glass, a bronze pin and two finger- 
rings. 
Early records of discoveries at Bedford are imperfect and unpro- 
1 Proc. Soc. Antig. ser. 2,1. 399 3 x. 36, 173. ; 
2 They are compared with fig. 451 (from Peterborough) of Li. Jewitt’s Grave-mounds and their 
contents. 
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