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urns was accidentally broken to pieces ; but the other is quite per- 

 fect, of a fine shape, made of red earth, (apparently the red marl, or 

 clay of the locality), eleven inches high, and nine inches in diame- 

 ter ; the mouth five inches, and the neck and bottom, respectively 

 three and a half inches across. The perfect urn has a double rim 

 round the mouth ; two indented lines surround the small and thick 

 portion of the neck, and two similar lines encircle the part which 

 may be termed the shoulder. The broken urn was one inch smaller 

 than the perfect one ; a little inferior in manufacture, and has only 

 a single rim round the mouth, and is without the indented lines. 

 These sepulchral urns* were deposited simply in the ground, with- 

 out any tumuli, according to the manner of the Romans. 



A little to the west of the village of Powick, on the same range 

 of hills, two urns, similar in size to those already described, were 

 dug up, about two years ago, containing the bones of children ; 

 parts of the cranium, with their sutures, and some of the bones of 

 the arm, were, at the time they were discovered, entire; but shortly 

 afterwards crumbled to pieces. 



Two ancient coins have likewise been discovered in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the village of Powick. Upon one the head is very per- 

 fect, and is encircled with a diadem studded with spikes or horns ; 

 but as the piece of metal was not large enough for the die, the in- 

 scription is so very imperfect as to render it difficult to ascertain 

 to what potentate it belonged. The other coin is very perfect, and 

 bears the image and superscription of Constantine, who was the 

 son of Constantine the Great. 



Several fragments of sepulchral urns, cups, and pans, of various 

 shapes and sizes, evidently belonging severally to the time of the 

 ancient Britons, the Romans, or of the Romanized, or later, Bri- 

 tons, and early Saxons, were dug out of a gravel pit, at Kempsey, 

 in the spring of 1835.t Some of these vessels are made of a very 

 coarse, dark, or ironstone clay ; others of common red, or brick 

 clay ; and others of some light material, mixed with red clay. The 

 fragments were discovered in a bed of gravel, about three feet and 

 a half from the surface. They were enveloped in a black ash, and 

 deposited in a cavity, or cist, of about six yards in circumference, 

 over which a roof of broken pebbles and clay had been originally 

 formed ; but it had fallen into the cist, and probably broke the 



• The Hight Honourable the Earl of Coventry has presented the urn and 

 fragments to the "Worcestershire Natural History Society. 

 f Thej are deposited in the museum of this Society. 



