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A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK before selling the gold cell-work. It was found about 1 8 3 5 by a ploughman who stated that it had studs of precious stones or glass, red at the centre, and others blue, while the small spaces [cloisons) were filled with green and other colours. In the British Museum is a somewhat larger brooch of gold from Faversham, Kent, that has likewise lost all its settings ; and both are good examples of an English (or perhaps Jutish) industry that flourished between 550 and 650 of our era and is best represented in the Kentish graves of that period. Another link with Kent or indication of early foreign trade is a jewelled brooch, found in Suffolk (frontispiece, fig. 3). It belongs to the ' radiated ' type more commonly found on Fig. J. — Gold Front of Jew- the Continent and assigned, on adequate grounds, ELLED Brooch, Sutton, near to the 5th century. Derived ultimately from a WooDBRiDGE (J) Gothlc model of the fourth century found in South Russia,^ it is a good specimen of the jeweller's art, and is engraved with linear patterns that are not definitely Teutonic, but survivals from classical art. The knots round the head are set with garnets, and along the bow and foot runs a strip of silver orna- mented with niello in minute triangles. Of fifteen found in England six are from Kent and the Isle of Wight, while the rest have been found sporadically as far north as th*e East Riding, but mostly on the eastern side of England. For Anglian immigrants arriving by sea the Orwell was doubtless one of the best approaches to the higher and drier ground of central Suffolk, and Ipswich has recently produced a splendid series of their remains. During the whole of 1906 burials were disturbed in the course of relief works for the unemployed on land belonging to the corporation in the triangle formed by the railway, Hadleigh Road, and London Road, on the western border of the county-town. The slope on the south side of Hadleigh Road was removed, and after four interments (possibly a larger number) had been destroyed by the workmen, the task of supervision was undertaken by Miss Nina Layard, who directed a gang of workmen a little in advance of the main body, and thus discovered and examined about i6o burials in one or other part of the ground. Full reports were prepared by Miss Layard for the Society of Antiquaries of London " and the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History " ; and the finds handed over to the town. The rich and interesting collection, that might in other circumstances have been lost to science, is now admirably exhibited in Christchurch Mansion, and throws much light on the conditions prevailing in this part of the county in the 6th century, for it is to that period that most of the objects recovered belong. In an area measuring roughly 400 ft. by 150 ft. inhumations were frequent and only a few cinerary urns were found, but in the later stages of the work this area had to be abandoned for a smaller space a little to the "* Arch. Journ. Ixv, 76. " Arch. Ix, 325-52, with map, illustrations, and three coloured plates ; ,see also Proc. Soc. Antij. xxi, 241, and further notes pp. 24.2-7. " Proceedings, xiii, J-19, including the s.ime coloured plates.