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and I was lucky in procuring five more perfect funereal vessels, and 
three broken,—the fractures having been of long standing ; for I took 
most of these vessels out myself, using every care, and can speak of 
the exact order in which they were deposited. This appeared to have 
been another grave, four feet from the last; the contents of which 
consisted of two urns, one eight inches high, six inches at the top, 
three inches and a half at the bottom, increasing to eight inches in 
the centre, containing burnt human bones ; the other nine inches high, 
three inches at the bottom, seven inches in the middle, and five inches 
at the top, contaiming the bones of a bird the size of a crow ; and burnt 
human bones, five or six nails, &c.; near this urn was a small bottle. 
Surrounding the other were two vessels like drinking-cups, two black 
saucer-shaped pieces of pottery, and one beautiful specimen of glass, 
quite perfect, of a transparent green colour, two inches high with 
handles, very similar to one preserved in the Museum at Boulogne: a 
small fragment of glass was also found with the human bones in the 
large urn: the urns containing the calcimed bones were in every in- 
stance nearest the surface. At the bottom of this tomb was a flat 
metallic substance, eight or ten inches in length and breadth, much- 
broken, having a few iron nails near it, but not more than eight or 
ten, and larger than those of the prior discovery. Iron is also the 
chief ingredient of this vessel or shield; but it is not oxidized like the 
nails, and was originally broken ; for I found pieces of it, with two or 
three nails, in the urn containing the birds’ bones, &c., which must 
have been placed there at the interment. 
Perfect specimens of glass funereal vessels are rare in England ; at 
Boulogne there is a valuable and extensive collection of glass vessels 
found in the Roman tombs near the town, and most probably this, as 
well as other specimens of glass discovered in England, were imported 
from and manufactured in Gaul. 
