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^{page 88 note 2} Dickens, B., ‘A System of Transliteration Old English Runic Inscriptions’, Leeds Studies English, i (1932). 17Google Scholar.

^{page 88 note 3} This rune occurs in eighth-century Northumbria, for example on the Ruthwell Cross (The Dream of the Rood, ed. B. Dickens and A. Ross (1934)).

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^{page 89 note 1} Jonsson, Finnur, Saemundar Edda (1926), 308Google Scholar, Sigrdrifumal v. 5.

^{page 89 note 2} Ibid.

^{page 89 note 3} Evison, V. I., ‘An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Holborough, Kent’, Arch. Cant, lxx (1956)Google Scholar.

^{page 89 note 4} Beowulf, ed. Klaeber, F. (3rd edn., 1941), 1695Google Scholar.

^{page 89 note 5} Dr. Calvin Wells has analysed cremations from the 1968 season at Spong Hill, and all those containing playing pieces proved to be male. I am grateful to Miss B. Green, of Norwich Castle Museum, for this information.

^{page 89 note 6} Evison, V. I., ‘The Dover Rune Brooch’, Antiq. Journ. xliv (1964), 242–5CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

^{page 89 note 7} Krause, W., Die Runen Inschriften im alteren Futhark (1966), 6Google Scholar.

^{page 89 note 8} Arntz, H. and Zeiss, H., Die einheimischen Runendenkmäler des Festlandes (1939), 42Google Scholar, 97, Taf. 2 and 5. Dr Page doubts whether these are in fact runic; see Page, R. I., ‘The Use of Double Runes in Old English Inscriptions’, Journal of English and German Philology, lxi (1962), 897Google Scholar.

^{page 89 note 9} Zimmer-Linnfeld, , Westeruianna, i (1960)Google Scholar, Taf. 36, no. 268, Taf. 48, no. 369; Waller, K., Die Graierfeld von Altenwalde (1957)Google Scholar, Taf. 2, 17, Taf. 17, 152.

^{page 89 note 10} Myres, J. N. L., Anglo-Saxon Pottery and the Settlement of England (1969), pp. 139–41Google Scholar, figs. 50 and 51.

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^{page 90 note 3} Evison, op. cit. 1964.

^{page 90 note 4} Hawkes and Page, op. cit. 1967, 22.

^{page 90 note 5} Myres, op. cit. 1969, 37–8.

^{page 90 note 6} Waller, K., Die Graberfelder von Hemmoor, Que/khm, Gudendorf and Duhnen-Wehrberg (1959)Google Scholar, Taf. 25, no. 20, shows a pot alike in both form and decoration to the Loveden runic pot.

^{page 90 note 7} Hubener, W., Aisalz Geiiete frühgeschichtliche Töpfereien in der Zone nordlich der Alpen (1969)Google Scholar, Taf. 161.

^{page 90 note 8} These pots will all be fully described and illustrated in the final publication of the whole cemetery.

^{page 90 note 9} Myres, J. N. L., ‘Three Styles of Decoration on Anglo-Saxon Pottery’, Antiq. Journ.xvn (1967), 424–37Google Scholar, pl. xci a.

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^{page 91 note 1} It occurs in the east German ‘Schalenurnen-felder’ of the third and fourth centuries (cf. Schuldt, E., Pritzier (1955)Google Scholar), and is also found further west, in Frisia, as well as elsewhere in England. It is not a common English form.

^{page 91 note 2} Evison, V. I., ‘Five Anglo-Saxon Inhumation Graves Containing Pots at Great Chesterford’, Berichten van de Rijksdienst voor het Oudheid-kundig Bodermonderxoek, xix (1969), 166, fig. 4Google Scholar.

^{page 91 note 3} For a detailed discussion of the runic astragalus see Wrenn, C. L., ‘Magic in an Anglo-Saxon Cemetery’, English and Medieval Studies presented to J. R. R. Tolkien (1962), 306 ffGoogle Scholar.

^{page 91 note 4} Hawkes and Page, op. cit. 3–6,23, pi. 1, pl. iva.

^{page 91 note 5} Page, R. I., ‘Anglo-Saxon Runes and Magic’, J.B.A.A. xxvii (1964)Google Scholar.

^{page 91 note 6} Krause, op. cit. 1966, includes many instances of this.