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prevailed at the time the monastery was in existence there, 
from A.D. 1125, to the dissolution. 
“A gentleman of this eity has informed us that he has 
seen stone coflins of a shape similar to those found here, 
equally rude in construction, dug up in the island of 
Cephalonia. 
.“ Further discoveries were afterwards made in Russell 
Street, and a seventh coflin was dug up. As the coffins first 
exhumed were lying in pairs, it might be inferred that, by 
excavating laterally from the seventh coffin, another would 
be discovered lying near it. Several large bones were dug 
out, as well as the lower stone of an ancient hand-mill, or 
quern, for grinding corn, which is now in the Literary 
and Scientifie Institution. A wall, taking a north-east 
direction, was also discovered ; it was three feet wide, at 
the base, but tapered towards the top, and was constructed 
of rough-hewn stones, apparently obtained from the neigh- 
bourhood of Lansdown, so firmly embedded in each other 
that they were separated with great difhiculty ; the mortar or 
cement, could not be distinguished. The portion laid bare 
was about five feet in length, and formed part ofa circle ; it 
was nine feet distant from the spot covered by the head ofthe 
seventh ceofin; and a few feet from the edge of the macad- 
amized road, between this and Russell Street, the whole of 
the coffins were deposited. This discovery has led to some 
interesting speculations. One view of the matter is, that 
the wall may indicate that the ground was enclosed for the 
purpose of sepulture, and, if so, traces of it may be found 
running along at the back of the houses on the western side 
of the street, so as to surround the cofins discovered some 
years since. Another view is, that the wall served as a 
boundary between this burial place, and the Roman road, 
the Via Julia, which, it is known, ran along at the top of 
