SEPULCHRAL REMAINS IN BATH. 61 
smaller than those of the females.. On the east side of 
the first coffin, and about twelve feet from it, was found an 
oblong box, with a cover to it, measuring twenty inches by 
fourteen, which contained the head of a horse. A skeleton 
was also found lying bent round the head of the first 
coffin, and about two feet distant from it. But the most 
eurious portion of the discovery was a stone chest, full of 
burnt bones, measuring twelve inches by nine, and six and 
a quarter inches deep. The lid is so contrived as to fit 
into the top of the box, and is slightly oval on the outside. 
This chest was distant nine feet from the last of the three 
stone coffins, namely, that containing the skeleton of the 
man ; a few feet above this chest, a skeleton has since 
been found. In order to form any correct idea of the 
dates of these interments, or the nation to which they 
belonged, it will be necessary to compare them with similar 
discoveries in other parts of England. I am inclined to 
think that they go back to an early period, at least prior 
to the Saxon invasion. In the Saxon burial-grounds which 
have been lately examined, I am not aware that any stone 
coffins have been discovered. 
The investigations which have lately been made in the 
Anglo-Saxon Cemetery, at Harnham, near Salisbury, and 
those made in Lynton Heath, Cambridgeshire, have 
thrown much light upon the manner of Anglo-Saxon 
burials ; but in neither case are any stone coffins mentioned. 
The contents of these three coffins, as far as they have been 
investigated, have only revealed what is stated to have been 
found in those discovered in Russell Street, namely, long 
iron nails, and small iron studs, united together, and lying 
near the feet, which have apparently formed part of the 
sandals. 
I have in my possession a curious stone ornament, with a 
