. The camp of refuge;. KENNEPHS BOUNDARY—STONE IN WELLAND WASH. -•~ I — ^ ■■ 1 THORNEY ABBEY CHURCH INTRODUCTION Ivii places the skeletons of warriors, with the remains oftheir shields and arms, have been discovered. At Wil-braham a shield was discovered with the handle yetremaining grasped by the finger-bones of a humanhand; while in another grave the skeletons of a manand a horse were found together with a sword placedbetween them (Gent. Mag. Lib. Archceology, ii. 174).This latter is sure indication of Scandinavian influencCjand the grim memorial of war represented by theskeleton hand brings
. The camp of refuge;. KENNEPHS BOUNDARY—STONE IN WELLAND WASH. -•~ I — ^ ■■ 1 THORNEY ABBEY CHURCH INTRODUCTION Ivii places the skeletons of warriors, with the remains oftheir shields and arms, have been discovered. At Wil-braham a shield was discovered with the handle yetremaining grasped by the finger-bones of a humanhand; while in another grave the skeletons of a manand a horse were found together with a sword placedbetween them (Gent. Mag. Lib. Archceology, ii. 174).This latter is sure indication of Scandinavian influencCjand the grim memorial of war represented by theskeleton hand brings to mind in a very dramaticfashion the struggle of the fens. In Wilburton fen notfar from Haddenham (referred to in the story as thebirthplace of Elfric the novice, p. 48), and about twomiles from Aldreth, a great hoard of bronze implements,including spear-heads and swords, was found in was examined and described by Sir John Evans{Archceohgia, xlviii. 106-114), and this great autho-rity, considering the broken condition of the imple-ments, the
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