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circular hole in the centre, the stone itself being circular, 
with two flat surfaces. This may have been placed as a 
talisman or a charm, or have served merely as a rude 
ornament. 
On visiting the Museum at York, this winter, I was 
struck by the resemblance of the coffins found in Bath, to 
some that are there preserved, and which have been 
discovered around the ancient city. York was the ancient 
Eburacum, the quarters of the Sixth Legion, very striking 
records of which are still preserved there. It was also the 
residence of Roman Emperors, and the remains that have 
been found there, surpass in interest those of almost any 
other eity in England. They are preserved with much 
care, and have been recorded in alearned work by the Rev. 
C.Wellbeloved, from which I have extracted the account of 
stone coflins there discovered. Some of the chests found 
in York have Latin inscriptions upon them, by which they 
are undoubtedly proved tobe Roman; others are plain, and 
without any inseription at all, but in size and shape exactly 
correspond to those found in Bath. 
Many coffins, says Mr. Wellbeloved, in general rudely 
formed of a coarse grit-stone, a few of lead, originally 
perhaps cased in wood, have, at various times, been found 
in the vieinity of York. In the year 1813, some workmen 
engaged in digging a sunk fence, found two very large 
coffiins of grit-stone, placed close to each other, one side 
of each neatly panelled, and the lids, as usual, slishtly 
ridged. Each coffin contained an entire skeleton, (p. 108). 
Two stone coflins, of a coarser grit, and of inferior work- 
manship, were recently found in a gravel-pit in Heslinston 
Field, by the side of the road from Heslington to Grim- 
ston, and probably not far from the line of Roman road 
from Eburacum to Derventio ; one of these was presented 
