Fig. 466.
Fig. 467.
The next engraving shows a bronze box of quite a different character, found with Anglo-Saxon remains at Newhaven. It is two inches in diameter, but very thick. It has six vertical ribs and two bars for attachment of the lid.
Fig. 468.
Needles and pins are frequently met with. The two shown on [fig. 466] will, however, be sufficient to call attention to these minute objects.
Combs of the Anglo-Saxon period differ but little from those of the Romans, or indeed from those of the present day. They were, both Roman and Saxon, sometimes toothed on one side and sometimes on both sides, and were made alike of wood, of metal, of bone, and of ivory. Boxwood appears to have been so much used for the manufacture of combs as to have occasionally given its own name to them. Thus Martial says:—
“Quid faciet nullos hic inventura capillos,
Multifido buxus quæ tibi dente datur?”