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ANGLO-SAXON REMAINS more described by Mr. Briggs, it would seem that, as a rule, they were in rows generally resting upon flat stones about 2 feet below the surface. They were nearly all upright, and their mouths were usually covered with thin stones ; but in one or two instances ' the calcined bones were placed upon a small flat stone and the urn inverted over them.' No grave furniture was found with these interments. Immediately north of the burial ground, which ' covered perhaps fifty square yards,' were traces of an oblong enclosure 498 feet long (east and west) and 195 feet wide (north and south) within the surrounding bank. Its rectangular shape is suggestive of a Roman encampment, but nothing to indicate such an origin was found. The distribution of these different modes of burial in groups sug- gests two explanations. The groups may relate to different tribes whose funeral practices differed ; or these practices may have been consecutive, each tolerably uniform throughout the region for the time being. The general trend of evidence both within and without the county is in favour of the former hypothesis, but the cemetery of this period at Sta- penhill 1 shows that it must not be pushed to an extreme. From this remarkable burial ground thirty-one inhumated and five cremated interments were obtained, all found in simple graves un- marked by any external features. Taking the inhumated examples first, fourteen were extended on the back and two on the side, five were flexed and lying on the left side, 3 while the positions of the remaining ten were undetermined. The heads of these skeletons (which were mostly of adults) pointed in various directions, but the majority had a westerly direction, or, to be strict, ranged from north-west lowest ; a fair proportion, however, pointed south-south-east. The most interesting interment was that of a lady whose skeleton lay at full length with the head to the west. Close to the head was a richly embossed and decorated drinking cup of pottery ; on either shoul- der a cruciform brooch of bronze gilt ; round the neck a chaplet of twenty or more beads of glass, amber, garnet and terracotta inlaid with coloured pastes ; near the waist an iron buckle and two bronze articles supposed to be part of the framework of a leathern bag or portions of a chatelaine ; and near the right arm a spindle-whorl of Kimmeridge coal. In another grave a man had been laid at full length on his back, with his spear at his right side and his shield placed over the middle of his body. In another were the remains of a child who seems to have undergone partial burning. Near the head was a small vessel ; near the neck, four beads, two of the Roman melon form and two of coloured pastes ; and apparently at the shoulder, a small gilt bronze fibula. Three skeletons occupied another grave, all apparently interred at the same time. They were more or less burnt, and were in fact sur- rounded with charcoal, burnt earth and charred cloth. With them were also associated several worn Romano-British and Saxon potsherds, and 1 Trans. Burton Nat. Hist, and Arch. Soc. i. 156 ; Antiquary, iii. 229. 8 See V.C.H. Nortkants, i. 229. 1 2 73 35