- SEPULCHRAL REMAINS IN BATH. 59 
“ In making some repairs at the Chapel Farm, on Lans- 
down, last year, twelve skulls were discovered on the south 
side of the house, placed with their faces downwards, and 
without any trace of the other portions of the skeletons. 
I understand that several stone coffins have been found 
about the rectory house, in the parish of Langridge ; and in 
the neighbouring hamlet of Beach, there is a field called 
‘Coffin Tining,’ where they have also been met with.” 
Stone cofins were found, about twelve years ago, at 
English Coombe, near Bath, where the remains of the 
Wansdyke are still so distinctly to be traced. 'They have 
also been found at Bitton, (probably the ancient Abone) 
through which passed the Roman road to the Trajectus, 
and communicated with Wales. The coffins found at 
Bitton were near the site of a Roman villa, N.E. of Ashton 
Lodge, where Roman pottery has also been found. In the 
coffins discovered at Langridge, some years since, a war 
implement, not unlike in form to an Indian tomahawk, 
and a spur, are said to have been found. Unhappily all 
these coffins were broken up and used as paving-stones for 
the yard of a house erected on the spot. Stone coflins 
have also been found in the parish of Bathwick, just at 
the foot of the hill; one of these is still preserved, being 
walled into the boundary of the burying-ground. 
On the ascent of the hill, and not far from a barrow, in 
opening a quarry, two skeletons were found in a sitting 
posture; the graves have since been destroyed. On the 
summit of the hill are the very interesting remains of an 
ancient British settlement, where there are several barrows, 
which appear never to have been opened. 
We now proceed to a description of those lately dis- 
covered at Combe Down. 
The occasion of the discovery was the making a garden 
