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Roman urns with funereal vessels and coins of Diocletian and Con- 
stantine were found not far from the shore at Park Crescent in 1826 
and 1828. 
The geologist may cavil at my inserting specimens not strictly geo- 
logical, and the antiquarian be angry for trespassing on his manor ; 
but as Sir Thomas Browne says in his epistle dedicatory to his work 
entitled ‘ Hydrotaphia Urn Burial,’—‘‘ We were hinted by the occa- 
sion, not catched the opportunity, to write of old things, or intrude 
upon the antiquary. We are coldly drawn into discourses of anti- 
quities, who have scarce time before us to comprehend new things, 
or make out learned novelties. But seeing they arose as they lay, 
almost in silence among us, at least in short account, suddenly 
passed over, we were very unwilling they should die again, and be 
buried twice among us.” 
“* Besides, to preserve the living and make the dead to live, to keep 
men out of their urns, and discourse on humane fragments in them, 
is not impertinent unto our profession ; whose study is life and death, 
who daily behold examples of mortality, and of all men least need 
artificial mementos, or coffins by our bed-side, to remind us of our 
graves.” 
On the 4th of August 1845, in cutting the Shoreham and Chichester 
railroad near Worthing, a little to the west of Ham Bridge, in the 
parish of Broadwater, the workmen discovered, from twelve to twenty 
inches under the ground, (the surface not more raised than in other 
places) from twenty-five to thirty Roman urns and funereal vessels ; 
five urns of a common shape and coarse material, containing burnt 
bones ; nine or ten bottle-shaped funereal vessels,—two with handles, 
one with painted ornaments, but of no specific character ; six or seven 
red pieces, usually called Samian pottery, stamped in the centre with 
the maker’s name; and one very beautiful and interesting small urn, 
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