Show cemetery of about A D found in kent graves were shallow excavations in a british housing project at riseley boseley Bl seley kent brought to light 20 skeletons with fragments of swords shields and some beram lc ic specimens the dartford Dart tord society which thereupon supervised the digging unearthed 50 more graves and identified the site as a cemetery of about A D A similar cemetery had been discovered a mile to the north in 1868 reports a writer in the new york times about the only near contemporary authority on the jutes is tho the venera ble bede he relates that they formed the third of the teutonic tribes to invade britain in the fifth 1 century and calls the people latae 11 they chiefly settled in kent the isle of wight and contiguous hampshire never returned to the continent and were gradually absorbed by the angles and the saxons the society reports that the majority of the burials were shallow about two feet deep in one isolated spot a roman cinerary urn and in another in the center of a road a circular cist were found these seem to indicate that the saxons were not the first to use this field as a burial site among the objects found are sev eral cral iron spearheads spear heads a few knives or raised center bosses of shields iron buckles bronze fibulae or brooches breeches and other personal adornments in one grave was an exceptionally large skeleton with a heavy sword and a shield with the metal grip stin still in position the one instance so far of valuables being found was in hi the grave of a female here were five gold brooches and tour four beads of amethystine thy stine quartz the broc brooches ches were circular with fill filigree gree work and precious stones inset the amethyst beads are similar to some found at sarre barre in 1864 according to a british museum authority the riseley finds represent the westernmost limits of a kind of ornament peculiar to kent |