SEPULCHRAL REMAINS IN BATH. 65 
fieing a horse, and the festival at which this takes place, is 
called the Aswa Medh. 
There is much probability that when the body was 
interred, it was apparelled as the deceased usually was. 
The iron nails found at the feet of the skeleton, are remains 
of sandals, which have, in some instances, been found 
entire. Thus, at Avisford, in Sussex, there was discovered 
a pair of well-nailed soles of calige. This was a case of 
cremation; the ashes being in a glass, were surrounded by 
vases, ete., and all placed in an oblong, rectangular stone 
box. In graves near Worthing, where was discovered 
a curious glass bottle, were found, in 1845, remains of 
well-nailed calige. The interments here were by crema- 
tion. (See Dixon’s Geology of Sussex, pp. 43 and 44.) 
It is curious to find these leathern relics placed with 
cinerary urns. Leather is less destructible than tissue, 
and it may be that a complete suit of clothes was placed 
in the cist, of which these soles are the only reliques 
preserved. There was certainly a curious notion of giving 
the dead all they wanted in a future state. 
We may remark that in none of the coffins recorded to 
bave been found in and near Bath, do we hear of the bodies 
having been covered with lime poured into the coffin, and 
on none of these have any inscriptions been found, unless 
it be on one discovered in the Wideombe Cemetery, which 
was illegible.. But the slight examination which such 
remains too often receive, leads us to suppose that many 
interesting peculiarities are often passed over. There is 
also a striking difference between the Roman altars found 
in Bath and those which I have seen elsewhere, and espe- 
cially in the north of England. The sides of all the altars 
found in Bath are plain ; the altars have merely the in- 
scription on the front,— while in most other altars, we have 
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