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Fig. 10 Gilt Bronze Buckie, Mitchili's Hill, Icklingham (^) ANGLO-SAXON REMAINS There were evident traces of burials on Mitchell's Hill, Icklingham, and possibly another case of horse-interment,'^ as at Warren Hill. The relics were mostly in Sir John Evans' collection, and comprised a square-headed brooch set with garnets in the Jutish style, two large and elaborate cruciform specimens, two clasps with woollen fabric attached, a buckle that may be of Prankish manufacture, a Roman spoon, girdle-hangers, tweezers, and among other brooches a pair of ' horned ' specimens of local type," with curved projections from the upper angles of the square head-plate, and a circular brooch with an embossed plate applied to the front as at Kempston, Bedford. In the Bury Museum a richly gilt buckle (fig. lo) from the site deserves special mention, as the pattern is of rare occurrence in England. The edges of the loop are bevelled, and the animal engraving executed not on the face of the loop, but on the sloping sides, suggesting a connexion with Sweden," where the same pecu- liarity occurs on buckles of the 5th century. Another gilt buckle, from Icklingham, is illus- trated in colours (fig. 2 on frontispiece), and is now in the British Museum. The panel is filled with deeply engraved animal pattern in the style character- istic of the 6th century, when the principles of anatomy were disregarded in order to fill a given space. A perforated axe-head of iron found at Undley and now in Mr. Fen- ton's possession has a Prankish appearance, and resembles one published from Icklingham.*^ Two others, from Ipswich, are in the national collection, one (fig. 11) belongs to a type fairly com- mon in Prance, but also found in the Thames, while the other is in poor condition, and has no expansion of the cutting edge. These weapons are rarely found in England, but are known from the Isle of Wight, London, and Croydon, "" and by comparison with con- tinental specimens may be assigned to the sixth century. Two iron spear-heads found in 1 8 1 3 in a barrow at Barrow Bottom," about five miles due west of Bury, are sufficient evidence of one or two Anglo-Saxon burials here, whether the barrow was raised at that time or (as is more prob- able) had existed since the Bronze Age, Fig. II.— Iron Axe-head, Ipswich (^) a thousand or more years before. At " Bury and W. Suff. Pnc. vi, 7 1 . " One from Farndish, figured in V.C.H. Bedi. i, 190 ; others from Soham and Barrington, Cambs., and Kenninghall, Norfolk. " Salin, Die altgermanische Thienrnamenlik, 164, fig. 390. " Akerman, Pagan Saxondom, pi. xxiii, fig. 3. '^ y-C.H. Surr. i, 260. S9 Bury and W. Suff. Proc. ii, 207. 343