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and one in the front of the Chapel there, and the remains 
of a wooden one, in digging the foundations of the west 
wing. This last was much damaged ; it was of very large 
dimensions, and appeared to have borne plates of metal, 
similar to the furniture of modern coffins. In the area 
between the three sides of the college buildings, and a 
little to the east of the front of the chapel, there was a 
bason-shaped hollow sunk into the rock, in which a large 
number of bodies had been interred without coffins. The 
skeletons remained, and the earth in which they were 
embedded is said to have been of a very fatty nature, and 
so slippery, that the workmen could not stand upon it if the 
surface was not level. About the same time no less than 
a dozen stone cofins were discovered by Thomas Bullock, 
in trenching some ground for a garden then held by him, 
but now in the oceupation of Captain Fownes, immediately 
behind the college premises. On the same ground he also 
found remains of buildings, which appeared to have under- 
“gone the action of fire. On the floor of a small chamber, 
or eist, some charred wheat was observed; a road, covered 
with yellow gravel, ran from this spot in a direction 
towards the village of Weston. Some coins were found 
with these remains, but they were not preserved, and it is 
not known to what era they belonged, although I remem- 
ber to have heard a report, when I first came to the parish 
of Weston, that they were Roman. 
“Allthe coflins above mentioned were of the common 
trough-shaped form, without any hollow for the head; they 
were of Bath freestone, covered with the same material, 
without efligy or insceription. The covers were about a 
foot beneath the surface of the ground ; they were lying 
in all directions, and, when east and west, the head was 
sometimes to the east. 
