. Glass. DRINKING CUPS FROM ANGLO-SAXON GRAVES ANGLO-SAXON GLASS of the word, in that they have no foot and will not standupright. A very similar form is common in Merovingiangraves. The tall, conical, trumpet-shaped cups are often care-fully made and of considerable artistic merit (Plate xvii.);the sides are sometimes gadrooned and fluted, andthreadings of glass of various colours are applied tothem. On a fine specimen found in the cemetery of theSouth Saxons near Worthing, the stringing has been dragged to form graceful festoons or chevrons, callingto mind the patterns on the primitive glass
. Glass. DRINKING CUPS FROM ANGLO-SAXON GRAVES ANGLO-SAXON GLASS of the word, in that they have no foot and will not standupright. A very similar form is common in Merovingiangraves. The tall, conical, trumpet-shaped cups are often care-fully made and of considerable artistic merit (Plate xvii.);the sides are sometimes gadrooned and fluted, andthreadings of glass of various colours are applied tothem. On a fine specimen found in the cemetery of theSouth Saxons near Worthing, the stringing has been dragged to form graceful festoons or chevrons, callingto mind the patterns on the primitive glass of the EasternMediterranean. The simpler forms—the little bottles and cups—maywell have been made in some of our southern counties,perhaps in the very glass-houses abandoned by theRomans; at any rate in Kent, the Jutish graves fromwhich so much of this glass has been derived are, as Ihave said, intimately associated with the earlier Romano-British cemeteries. On the other hand, for the north ofEnglan
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