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that the coin of Carausius was found near the discovered 
cofins, as it may serve to fix the date when the spot was 
used by the Romans as a cemetery. 
“ A skeleton was dug up at the Gas Works in 1815, and 
a Roman urn, with reticulated lines ; and skeletons were 
dug up in the Gravel Walk in 1844, and in the Park in 
1847 ; but there are no records of stone coffins. 
“It is asingular circumstance that one or more skeletons 
are generally found lying near the coffins. 
“Stone cofins are frequently discovered in barrows, 
which also contain Roman urns, proving their use in 
England at that period. Sir Christopher Wren found such, 
at the rebuilding of St. Paul’s; and Gough adds that, 
from the ninth century to the reign of Henry III., stone 
cofins were in general use—that is, for persons of the 
higher classes. The bodies of the common people, not only 
in the Norman, but also in the English era, as we see from 
the illuminations of ancient missals, were only wrapped in 
eloth, and so put into the ground. In this manner, Matthew 
Paris informs us, the monks of St. Alban’s were buried till 
the time of Abbot Warin, who died in 1195. He ordered 
that they should be buried in stone cöffins, as more decent. 
Matthew Paris, on this occasion (Hist. Abb. St. Alb. p. 95) 
charges him with innovations on established customs, to 
please the multitude. Strutt says, in the reigns of Henry 
V.and VI. stone coffins were made with necks, distin- 
guishing the head and shoulders. 
“ That stone coffins were used up to a comparatively 
recent date may be inferred from the fact that at Monkton 
Farley, near Bath, specimens of superior workmanship 
(with necks as above described) were discovered, a few 
years ago, in connection with efligies and architectural 
fragments, leading to the belief that such a mode of burial 
