314 
A trench several yards long, with an average depth of 5 feet, 
was dug along the South side of the quarry, in a place where the 
rubble underlying the top of the earth had at one time been 
disturbed probably for the purpose of interments. 
The products were :— 
(1) Much broken pottery, apparently fragments of urns of 
various sizes and colours, ¢.g., grey, black, dark red 
and imitation so-called “Samian” ware. 
(2) Human bones very broken and scattered, also burnt 
bone and wood ashes. 
(3) A silver ring-key, one small brass of Victorinus and 
sandal nails. 
(4) The portion of the head of a stone axe and some flint 
flakes. 
I have been informed by one who saw a skeleton unearthed 
here a few years ago (since Mr. Glover’s time), that it was 
surrounded by large iron nails which he considered coffin nails, 
and which would be the position into which they would have 
naturally fallen as the coffin decayed. 
Mr. Thomas Wright, in his ‘ Roman, Celt and Saxon,” p. 310, 
says :—‘‘ Wooden coffins appear to have been extensively used 
in Roman cemeteries in this country—they are traced by the 
marks of decayed wood and more especially by the presence of 
large long nails which had been used to attach the planks of the 
coffin together.” 
The two modes of burial at Newton appear to have been by 
cremation and interment, and the various articles found give 
proof of the custom which existed among the Romans of 
supplying the dead with all they should want in a future state. 
It is quite possible that this place of burial had some 
connection with the Roman villa already mentioned. The 
annexed survey will point out their relative positions. 
