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Archaeologia cantiana . FULL SIZE. BOTTLE FROM THOMPSONS FIELD PI FIBUL/C,FOUND IN THOMPSONS FARM. AT PLAXTOL IN KENT. 7 side, was the means of preserving them; whereas the rest,extending further into the field, came more under theaction of the plough, and suffered accordingly. The ar-ticles found consisted of Saurian ware of various shapes,black, brown, and red pottery, a glass lachrymatory, twobronze fibulae, two bronze locks, hinges, clamps, studs,nails, fragments of wood, leather, chipped flints, piecesof glass, etc. The vases, urns, and Samian vessels, were filled withbones, burnt and
Archaeologia cantiana . FULL SIZE. BOTTLE FROM THOMPSONS FIELD PI FIBUL/C,FOUND IN THOMPSONS FARM. AT PLAXTOL IN KENT. 7 side, was the means of preserving them; whereas the rest,extending further into the field, came more under theaction of the plough, and suffered accordingly. The ar-ticles found consisted of Saurian ware of various shapes,black, brown, and red pottery, a glass lachrymatory, twobronze fibulae, two bronze locks, hinges, clamps, studs,nails, fragments of wood, leather, chipped flints, piecesof glass, etc. The vases, urns, and Samian vessels, were filled withbones, burnt and unburnt, some apparently of birds andanimals. On digging to the west of the cemetery, we came tothe foundations of a wall (Plate ), so close to thedeposits of pottery that we c, ncluded the cemetery hadbeen surrounded by one. We were told that about twenty years ago a pavedroad (Plate ), about 4 feet wide, or thereabouts, wasfound running from the tumulus across the field in adiagonal direction towards the north-east. Fragments of crocks were described a
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