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XVIII.—On Excavations in a Cemetery of South Saxons on High Down, Sussex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

Charles Hercules Read
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In the autumn of 1892, Mr. Edwin Henty, in planting trees on his property on High Down Hill, in the parish of Ferring, in Sussex, came upon a number of graves, which, from the character of the relics found in them, were readily determined to be of Saxon origin. Mr. Henty has carefully preserved all that he could secure, but from the unfortunate accident that the men employed in the work were strangers, and not his own workmen, there is reason to believe that a number of the articles found were disposed of to visitors and others.

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Archaeologia , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , 1895 , pp. 369 - 382
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1895

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page 369 note a Lindenschmit, L., Die Alterthümer unserer heidnischen Vorzeit, iii. Pl. v.Google Scholar

page 370 note a Collectanea Antiqua, vol. v. Pl. xi. This specimen has since been acquired by the British Museum with other antiquities from Mr. Humphrey Wickham's collection.

page 370 note b Vols. xxxiv. 177; xxxv. 48; xxxvi. 78; pilum, xlii. 327.

page 370 note c A weapon of similar character 1 foot 8 inches long, found in the Thames, is in the British Museum; and two pila from Hod Hill are in the Durden Collection, now in the same institution.

page 370 note d xiii. 274.

page 370 note a xiij. 27.

page 372 note a A brooch of the same design found at Perlberg, Hanover, is figured in Müller, J. H., Vor-und frühgeschichtche Alterthümer der Provinz Hannover. 1893. Pt. xxii. fig. 212Google Scholar.

page 377 note a , Figured in Associated Architectural Societies' Reports, vii. part 2.Google Scholar

page 378 note a An object equally puzzling, which illustrates this tube, has been found recently at Croydon, with Saxon remains of a similar character to those from High Down. The Croydon example is cruciform, and the horizontal bar is of the same form as the High Down tube, but the other limb has double bronze plates for the attachment of straps. (Dec. 1894.)

page 378 note a cf. , Akerman'sPagan Saxondom, pl. xviii. fig. 3.Google Scholar

page 380 note a The Saxons in England, 1849, i. 456.Google Scholar

page 380 note b Archaeologia, xxxviii. 327; xxxix. 134.

page 380 note c Associated Architectural Societies' Reports, vii. part 2, 269.

page 381 note a Stubbs's Episcopal Succession, 137.

page 381 note b Journal of the Anthropological Institute, vol. vii.