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mixed with the earth inside the coffin, but no coins. 
Outside the cover on the right hand lay a skeleton with 
its head to the feet of the other, the bores of a very large 
size, and near them were some remains of a jaw, resem- 
bling that of ahorse’ “The head of the second coffin 
was to the S.W.; on the cover was a skeleton of very large 
size, with the handle of a sword and part of the blade; all 
of iron, much corroded ; there is a guard to the handle like 
like that of a cutlass. No pottery 
“We may notice that the eccentrie Philip Thicknesse 
buried his daughter in his garden, of which an account is 
given in his memoirs. 
“May, 1815, on the premises of Messrs. Sainsbury and 
Co., Walcot, two stone coffins, containing skeletons, were 
found (one with the face downwards), and “a half-pint of 
various coins, but of whose time is not ınentioned. 
“In the same month, also, one was exhumed in the 
garden at the back of Upham’s Library, near the Orange 
Grove. 
“May 1822, two stone coflins were found near Burnt 
House Turnpike Gate, and, previously to this, two near 
Claremont Place, Combe Down. 
“ June, 1824, at Lambridge, a sandstone coffin of rude 
construction, containing two skeletons, one an adult, the 
other a child were discovered; “near the head of the 
cofin were two rings of a yellow- metal, 14 inch in 
diameter, narrow and flat, and covered with the green 
patina so much admired ‚by antiquarians; near it were 
found three pins, the larger two inches long, of a green 
colour, the two others were broken : their use was probably 
to connect the grave clothes ; another skeleton was found 
near the place.’ 
“ September 1840, one or two coffins were found, with 
