He looked at the wreaths from every side.
Here, probably, the wreaths were presented to the victors.
Women's ornaments consisted of brooches (fibulae), bracelets (armillae), armlets (armillae, bracchialia), ear-rings (inliures), necklaces (monilia), wreaths (coronae) and hair-pins (crinales).
Flowers had been pulled from the wreaths and the marker cross carelessly tossed behind some other graves.
It turned out they were preparing funeral wreaths for the next day.