Surrey archaeological collections . This was the only burial discovered on the site. While itextends the limits of the cemetery to the south, it suggeststhat it may have extended still further in that direction, butthat the wearing down of the top of the hill has probablydestroyed most of these shallow burials, if others existed. The rest of the time was spent in making a cut (cut 2) totrace the direction of the ditch and in clearing a short distanceof it (PI. VII and Fig. 4). At the same time, the foundationtrenches for the second house being built on this ground,were in process of being dug,
Surrey archaeological collections . This was the only burial discovered on the site. While itextends the limits of the cemetery to the south, it suggeststhat it may have extended still further in that direction, butthat the wearing down of the top of the hill has probablydestroyed most of these shallow burials, if others existed. The rest of the time was spent in making a cut (cut 2) totrace the direction of the ditch and in clearing a short distanceof it (PI. VII and Fig. 4). At the same time, the foundationtrenches for the second house being built on this ground,were in process of being dug, and served to show that the ditchcarried right across the site. The stratification in cut 2 coincided with that in cut 1,and produced some rather more satisfactory dating Saxon layer (1. 2) contained three objects, viz. a blue-glassbead, a silver finger-ring (of usual spiral type) and an ironspearhead, with open socket. The spearhead still retainedthe traces of some 3 inches of its wooden shaft, projecting PLATE VII.
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