Archaeologia cantiana . ROMAN GLASS=VESSEL JcyuTui wilA- a- Leaden Qt??^ at- jl/il^-<?n- nszt Siliiny3oicrne,/(e7/f^. sa?HS Size (zs OrimkaZ. y.^.Mi^ca^lM PROM BEX HILL. I7l vessel are represented separately, in their exact size,in an accompanying plate.* Several small urns, mostly of Upcliurcli ware,were found about twenty feet west of this coffin in1871; and with them was a finger ring of feet from the urns lay two skeletons, and at thefeet of one of them were three small earthen of decayed wood, aroimd these skeletons, sug-gest the probability that they were int
Archaeologia cantiana . ROMAN GLASS=VESSEL JcyuTui wilA- a- Leaden Qt??^ at- jl/il^-<?n- nszt Siliiny3oicrne,/(e7/f^. sa?HS Size (zs OrimkaZ. y.^.Mi^ca^lM PROM BEX HILL. I7l vessel are represented separately, in their exact size,in an accompanying plate.* Several small urns, mostly of Upcliurcli ware,were found about twenty feet west of this coffin in1871; and with them was a finger ring of feet from the urns lay two skeletons, and at thefeet of one of them were three small earthen of decayed wood, aroimd these skeletons, sug-gest the probability that they were interred in simplewooden cofl&ns. Two more leaden coffins, have subsequently beendiscovered at Bex Hill, but both of them were devoidof ornament. Within that which was last found, in1873, there were tw-o small finger rings, of gold wire,and three thick long pins of dark wood or of Kim-meridge coal. The rings are of the most primitivekind, each being simply a circle of gold wire, theends of which overlap considerably. Each end is thenfastened by being turned, once, round that part of thewire upon which it lies. Eac
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