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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
The Valley of the Thames had naturally many attractions for our Saxon forefathers. Their cattle found in its meadows abundant pasturage, its marshes were the resort of myriads of wild fowl, while the stream itself afforded the means of transit between the towns and villages on its banks, many of which retain in their names evidence of their Anglo-Saxon origin.
page 328 note a Engraved in my Pagan Saxondorn, PL iii. Another fibula very similar in design was found in 1832 near the same spot, and is now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; see Archæological Journal, vol. iv. p. 253.
page 328 note b Hoare's Ancient Wiltshire, vol. ii. part i. p. 53.
page 329 note a Engraved in the Archæologia, Vol. XXVII. PI. xxii.
page 330 note a I may add, that, for convenience of reference, the objects have been labelled as follows:-
(1) The Arabic numerals from 1 to 127 indicate the graves in which skeletons have been found.
(2) Letters of the alphabet have been placed upon the urns that once contained burnt bones, proceeding from a onwards.
(3) Those urns that were found in connexion with the skeletons bear the same numbers as the graves from which they have been taken. I need not add that these urns were empty.
page 331 note a Examples of the crania are preserved in the Museum at Oxford. I am indebted to John Thurnam, Esq., M.D., F.S.A., and J. B. Davis, Esq., F.S.A., the authors of the Crania Britannka, for some notes on these remains, which are appended to this communication.
page 333 note a Engraved in my Pagan Saxondom. PL xxii. fig. 3.
page 335 note a Under claves remittere.
page 335 note b Archæologia, Vol. XXXVIII. p. 97. PL III. fig. 8.
page 335 note c Ib. fig. 6.
page 336 note a Ancient Laws and Institutes of England, ed. Thorpe, vol. ii. p. 404.
page 336 note b See my Pagan Saxondom, pi. ii.; Archæologia, Vol. XV. pi. xxxvii. fig. 1, p. 402; Wylie's Fairford Graves, p. 17, pi. i.; Lindenschmit, Germanische Todtenlager bei Selzen; Collectanea Antiqua, vol. ii. pi. Ii.
page 336 note c See Archæologia, Vol. XXXVI. pi. xvi. p. 179; Pagan Saxondom, pi. xxxiii.; Douglas, Nenia Britannica, pi. ii. fig. 9.
page 337 note a See for similar fibula, Archæologia, Vol. XXXV. pi. xii, fig; Proceeding s of the Society, Vol. IV. p. 38.’
page 338 note a A similar instance occurred at Harnham; Archæologia, Vol. XXXV. pi. xii. fig. 16.
page 340 note a See Archæologia, Vol. XXXV. pi. x. figs. 3 and 6; Pagan Saxondom, Introduction, p. x.
page 345 note a Similar to one found at Hamham. See Archæologia, Vol. XXXV. pl. xi. fig. 8; Pagan Saxondom, pi. xxxvi. fig. 4.
page 346 note a A similar spindle-whirl was found at Brighthampton. See Archæologia, Vol. XXXVIEI. pi. iii. fig. 8.
page 346 note b A similar set of implements was found at Harnham; Archaeologia, Vol. XXXV. pi. xii. fig. 13.
page 346 note c A photograph was taken of this skeleton, which shows the way in which it was lying, and the positioa of the weapons.