SEPULCHRAL REMAINS IN BATH. 63 
to the York Museum. On removing the lid, the coffin 
appeared to be almost half filled with lime, excepting the 
place in which the head had lain. The lime having been 
very carefully taken out, the lower surface presented a 
distinet impression of a human body, over which, with the 
exception of the face, the lime had been poured in a liquid 
state, the body having been first covered with a cloth, the 
texture of which is still clearly to be seen in the impres- 
sion on the lime. The feet had been crossed, and covered 
with shoes or sandals, having nails in the soles, the marks 
of which on the lime are distinctly visible, and several of 
the nails themselves were found in the coffin, in a very 
corroded state. These nails correspond with what have 
been found in the coffins in Bath and at Combe Down. A 
very small portion of the bones remained, sufficient how- 
ever to indicate that they were the bones of a female. 
All the teeth, except one, were found with the enamel 
undecayed. Just above the left shoulder, a small portion 
of a gold ring appeared ; and the lime surrounding it 
being carefully scraped away, the remnants of a lady’s 
ornaments were brought to light, consisting of fragments 
of large jet rings, two earrings of fine gold, two bracelets, 
several brass or copper rings, one of which resembled a 
cogwheel, about two inches in diameter, three finger rings, 
one ofthem of jet, of a modern pattern, and two necklaces; 
one of the necklaces was formed of glass beads, yellow and 
green ; the others, of small beads of coral, intermixed with 
smaller beads of blue glass, strung in both cases on very 
slender twisted silver wire. All these, with the coffin and 
the lime, are deposited in the Museum of the Philosophical 
Society. 
In the spring of 1841, when workmen were employed in 
removing earth to the depth of three or four feet, for the 
