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purpose of forming the North of England Railway, 
several stone coffins, containing lime, were discovered, 
Just without the walls of York, but the skeletons in no case 
entire. 
It isremarked, that of the great number of stone coflins 
which have been at various times discovered at York, very 
few have been found bearing an inscription. 
Three only are known, which are engraved in Mr. 
Wellbeloved’s Eburacum, (see page 110.) Itissingular that 
very near to thefirst of these, the skeleton of a horse was 
found lying; and Gough, in his Sepulchral Remains, vol i. 
p- 22, notices a similar circumstance at Chute. At Combe 
Down we have the head and some bones of the horse 
enclosed in a stone chest. T’he reason of the interment of 
the horse, or some portion of its remains, near the human 
skeleton, would form a very interesting subject of enquiry, 
and might be pursued with advantage. Instances of it 
oceur not merely in Roman, but in Saxon burials. I am 
informed that in one of the graves at Linton Heath, opened 
by Mr. Neville, the skeleton of a Saxon was found, with 
a horse’s skull placed on the leg bones ; no other bones 
of the horse occurred there. In the Memoirs of the 
Society of Antiquaries of Picardy, vol. v., p. 145, there is 
a paper on the Remains of Horses, found near Gaulish tombs 
and places of sacrifice, by the Abbe Santerre. Not having 
the work at hand, I am unable to state his view of the fact. 
It has been conjectured that the remains of the horse may 
be connected with the funeral feast which took place at inter- 
ment; orit is more probable that the favorite horse was 
killed at such a time, because he was supposed to be of ser- 
vice to his master in the abodes of the dead. On the tomb of 
Cecilia Metella, near Rome, horses heads are said to be 
sculptured in relief. “The Hindoos have a custom of sacri- 
