50 PAPERS, ETC. 
Some months ago a fresh discovery was made at Combe 
Down, the particulars of which are worthy the attention 
of the meeting, and that the facts may not be lost, I have 
determined to place them on record. It may not how- 
ever be uninteresting, in the first place, briefly to refer to 
the discoveries made in Russell Street in September, 1852. 
An account of them was given in the Bath Chronicle, from 
which the following is an extract, and which may be relied 
upon as correct : 
“On Friday last, the 10th inst., while the workmen were 
excavating the road at the top of Russell Street, for the 
purpose of enlarging the sewer, they discovered four stone 
coffins, with the heads lying to the N.E. One (the smallest) 
had no lid; the others were covered. They were disposed 
in pairs ; the upper ones nearly parallel, side by side, 
about two feet apart: the lower pair about a yard distant ; 
lying immediately above these was a skeleton. In the first 
coflin was found a skeleton of large size; in the next, two 
skulls, with various bones ; the small coflin contained no 
skull, but loose bones. One of the coffins was preserved 
untouched till Monday, when it was carefully removed, and 
afterwards examined. It was covered with a regularly 
adjusted lid, not with a plain slab (as was the case with 
the others we have mentioned), the coffin being bevelled 
off at the foot, to allow the cover to fit more closely; the 
upper end of the lid seemed to have been slightly lifted up. 
The cover was of superior workmanship. The coffin was 
full of a soft clayey earth, with two human vertebr& lying 
on it. The earth being removed, a perfect skeleton, 
supposed to be that of a female, was found; it was lying 
on its left side, with the right arm erossing the breast, the 
left arm extended down the side. "The remaining contents 
of the coffin were part of an infant’s jaw; a metal pin, 
